So I have a “friend” really a guy I used to hang out with, but haven’t seen for years, as he lives in Australia.
He posts a lot of Anti-Gun, even anti America type stuff from time to time.
Occasionally I decide to involve myself in it.
Today he posts this (pic below) sarcastic comment about “protecting families”… it’s under my skin a bit…
How would you respond?
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Do they even have liberty in Australia?
Or just respond, “Bro, do you even liberty”?
I would “unfriend” him. He doesn’t seem like much of a friend.
He’s not used to having freedom, the Crown has taken almost all of it away from them in the name of “safety”.
You could always propose a scenario where “a crazy marauding gun toting AMERICAN shows up and attacks his family.”
Aussies are a lot like Brits in the fact that they have had a lifetime of their peers telling them that guns are bad and America is bad. It is ingrained into their psyche.
Also, these groups have some very bizarre views of self defense, guns and crime and punishment. It is as if they live in some sort of parallel universe.
Best to not discuss those subjects with them unless you dig having your brain hurt. LOL
Maybe he could get a member of ISIS to live with him, you know, to spread peace.
Ding ding ding.
Unfriend him and ignore him. Problem solved.
Only God can reclaim the mind of a fool.
Would depend on how good a friend. I’d likely say nothing and simply unfriend him. I tend to make like minded people as FB “friends” and or I don’t tend to shove my personal beliefs down the throats of my “friends” in such a manner as he did/does.
Simple tell him that is the difference between the two of you…WE fought anf earned our freedom and they don’t even know what it is.
I also like like the idea of unfriending him…that is the most simplistic solution.
Do that first. And then unfriend him. May as well have some fun with it.
Like there aren’t already enough ways to die in Austrailia. Poison everything…crocs, assorted jellyfish, the deserts. Enjoy your “safety”.
I’m on my IPad so I’m not going to look for the links, but search the Australian Institute of Criminology’s website. Since banning most firearms in Australia, the homicde rate had been unchanged and homicide by firearms have only been reduced by 6%. Basically, not many people were murdered in Australia before they banned guns, and not many people are being murdered now. Other types of violent crimes have become more common.
Don’t unfriend him, educate him.
Hopefully he stays there and hopefully he doesn’t bother to to send in absentie ballots.
I wonder what the 80 women that were raped would say about being disarmed.
Delete
“I never learned from a man who agreed with me.”
-Robert Heinlein
I feel like we live in enough of an echo chamber as it is, what with all the forums and news media specially formulated to whatever our slant on a particular issue is. I want my friends on Facebook to be diverse so that I can hear from the other side on everything they feel is worth posting… and so the other side can hear from me on everything that I feel is worth posting. That’s not to say that I don’t have my own echo chamber on FB, but it’s something that I can use when I want to, not something that I use all or even most of the time.
So my opinion? Remain calm and educate this friend.
As much as I respect Heinlein, there are many, many issues where I really don’t need to consider the other point of view to form a complete and correct opinion. Examples of this are:
Child rape: I really don’t need a long discourse with a NAMBLA representative.
ISIS / Islamic terrorism: Again, I don’t need a comprehensive lesson on Wahhabi and I don’t need to understand their motivations.
My Rights. This includes freedom of speech, expression, religion / beliefs and personal defense and the use of weapons to defend myself and those I’m responsible for. And there really is no discussion.
There is not a single thing a person can say, do or think that should have any bearing or impact on my personal rights. And if a person cannot respect something as fundamental as my right to defend myself and those I am responsible for, they aren’t a friend and I have nothing to say to such a person. I also don’t feel it is my job to educate them so they understand my position, why is it not their job to learn to respect my rights in the first place.