The Golden Rule might require many things including:
1. Helping others to avoid voting for public policy blunders that abuse people's rights, and
2. Not oneself voting for laws that infringe on people's valid rights.
B. Roberts question is "Why should we help gun owners who support gun control?" These are people who already support a restriction. Does helping one of them enable that person to support a restriction, or to support it more effectively? Does helping one of them offer a promise that they would be less inclined to support such a restriction?
Without some detail to a hypothetical, one can't know whether assisting an individual increases the risk of a harm.
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