OPINION:
After recent mass shootings at a party, school and bank, politicians have called for more gun control.
But the absence of guns would not have stopped the stabbings of Idaho college students, California executives, a congressional aide or a Virginia tourist in a Washington hotel. Without guns, driving a car into a crowd or pushing someone off a subway platform would still have occurred.
A respect for human life would limit senseless killings. When did our society lose that respect? Could our slippery slope have begun in January 1973, when abortion became legal nationwide? Although the excuse then was that the unborn child was not fully human, since then ultrasounds, modern genetics, survival of very premature infants and other medical advances have taught us otherwise.
Arguments by early pro-life speakers were that (1) the unborn child was indeed human, (2) in every country that legalized abortion, the murder rate had gone up, (3) the Holocaust occurred after German leaders convinced their people that one group of people was less than human and (4) why should one person’s problem be more important than another human being’s life?
JUDY KAMPIA
Berwyn Heights, Maryland
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