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D.C. McAllister<\/p><\/div>\n

Being pro-life and pro legal gun possession are not mutually exclusive nor are they at odds with one another. In fact, they are morally, legally, and ideologically intertwined, working in tandem to protect innocent lives, in different ways, both offensively and defensively.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Without the right to defend oneself with force, law-abiding Americans would be as defenseless as a newborn\u2014incapable of defending themselves, looking only to the state to prevent harm. <\/em><\/p>\n

That\u2019s the world Trevor Noah wants us to live in. It\u2019s not the world most of America wants.<\/em><\/p>\n

~ D.C. McAllister, responding to The Daily Show host Trevor Noah’s claim<\/a> that pro-lifers who are pro-Second Amendment aren’t really\u00a0pro-life,\u00a0The Federalist<\/a>, October 7<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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