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  • Yes, “they” do, for values of “they”.

    You can have a scope with magnification as your “longer range” optic, and use something like a red dot for close-range shooting where the scope would get in the way.

    You can do this by putting a “piggyback” sight on top of your big scope, but that gives you a lot of offset (your “dot” is far above where you shoot), which makes aiming harder. (And attaching a scope to a scope makes for suboptimal stability) The other method is by using an angled adapter, so you just turn the gun sideways a bit, and if you’re using the right stuff, you can just shoot like that with the same sighting and alignment.

    Of course, that’s mostly useful for people who expect to shoot at stuff both 300m and 20m away, which generally means military, sports shooting and people who wish they could do either.








  • The mother can, at any point in time, choose not to let someone else use her body. Doing so, practically, in all your examples would result in the birth of the child.

    This isn’t some clever gotcha, the point of my argument is that the child has no right to use the mothers body to survive. If someone decides not to let someone else use their body, and that means the child dies, then so be it, because bodily autonomy supercedes life.

    My argument isn’t that a mother should be able to kill a child just because she feels like it. It’s acceptable to kill someone to maintain bodily autonomy, that’s my argument.

    Your “clever” examples all have options where both bodily autonomy are maintained AND life is maintained, which is a double win.