Posted on 08/17/2016 1:58:02 PM PDT by sally234
Guns are a tricky topic. Very rarely do you find voters ambivalent about gun violence, gun safety, etc. Someone is either strongly pro-gun rights or pro-gun control, which makes a civil conversation difficult to start or maintain. But the solution isn’t to avoid the topic.
As I mentioned in my last column, you may be the only conservative who tries to challenge a liberal’s worldview. No pressure.
It may sound like a heavy weight to bear, but not if you’re prepared. So, let’s talk guns.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailysignal.com ...
I point out where they are wrong, not for their sake, but for someone reasonable who might be following the exchange. They almost to a person are oblivious to facts and logic when it comes to this subject.
bkmk
How to talk to a gun control nut:
The second amendment says “shall not be infringed”.
It means “shall not be infringed”.
Debate over.
I win.
Try saying that they have the right to be un-armed but I do not have the right to be un-insured and watch their eyes bulge!
The best argument I have heard is to point out that they expect men with guns to disarm those of us who own firearms. So they are, in reality, “Pro Gun”. They just want to dictate who has guns.
Sorry, the rebuttal is always, “but San Bernardino!”, “but that nightclub in Florida!”, “but Sandy Hook!”...
Now that is a good one, too.
There is ONLY one way to talk to people who wants our guns:
“Pointing the rifles and hand guns in their faces and have them repeat: “I am for every gun you have in America”...if any other thing comes out of their mouths, bang, ...another one bites the dust...”
Just do like their hero KhanMan did and wave The Constituion in their faces
The author must not read the ranting of the gun-control crazies or she would understand how her suggestions are not going to connect with that crowd. Here are her 3 suggestions:
1) Common Ground - Sorry, I have no common ground with those that have no understanding of freedom.
2) Examples - Guaranteed to be turned back on the person using the example as evidence of being an unbalanced gun-nut paranoid.
3) Words - Again, a guarantee of getting the words thrown back at you, even when trying to use their lexicon. If there is no agreement on the basic issue of freedom, there is no room for reasoned conversations. Cut them out of your life as soul-sucking wastes of time, skin, and oxygen.
Them: "Uh, who are your enemies?"
I just smile.
You cannot win over an ant-gunner using facts and logic. I invite them to go to the range, and if they refuse, ask them if they eat lobster?
Just a guess but shooting them isn’t one of the options?
Even if I calmly explain this to libtards, they’ll still YELL at me “racist, right winger, gun lovvveer, I HATE YOU AAAAAAAAA”
You can’t have a reasonable debate with people like that. Better to say GFY and ask them what they’re going to do about it
I have no interest in talking to gun control advocates. I want to head butt them until they finally understand that I’m NOT giving up my second amendment rights given to me by god, not some politician.
Until they get that...FMCDH!
“stay right here , I’ll be right back “ ....
Perhaps she should have given examples of how successful she was talking with gun-control enthusiasts. I’d like to know who she won over with this type of discussion. Gun-control enthusiasts are usually a bit unhinged and this puff piece doesn’t appear to provide useful information.
I’ve had the same sort of experience and with my liberal parents, sad to say. I can remember about some 20 years ago or so, over the news on the radio came a report of a man who shot a couple of his kids to death in a domestic dispute. A Reform Party member of Parliament said that the long gun registry that the federal Liberals were at the time trying to ram through into legislation would most likely not have prevented the tragedy. My parents said “no, it probably would have”. I begged to differ, saying that police are trained to always assume a firearm is present when approaching a domestic incident and also that the money that was to be spent on registering every duck and deer gun would have been better spent on better domestic intervention initiatives, women’s shelters, youth counselling services, etc.
Well, that got me into a whole heap of trouble and had me being yelled and sworn at and lectured to about the NRA and the Oklahoma City bombing, etc.
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