@mjburgess I think the debate on abortion is/was on when a life begins. And not, whether a doctor has a right to perform medical procedure, killing a child

@mjburgess I think the debate on abortion is/was on when a life begins. And not, whether a doctor has a right to perform medical procedure, killing a child at request of a mother. To make the comparasing work for the debate on 2nd amendment, I would the suggest, a comparable question should be: Can a person end somebody else's life in an act of self-defense, within the framework of existing legal system? If the answer is 'No', the rest of the debate on 2nd amendment would have to rest on decision for its next argument: This is a completely separate argument made for 2nd amendment: is that it is a deterrent against an unconstitutional tyranny of government. But that discussion, does not have an analog in the abortion argument, at least in my view.