Tis the season to have to deal with Liberals...

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Like many of you, I went a cousin’s house for a Christmas Day family get together. Normally, I am surrounded by Conservative, PRO GUN (even my Mother is a member of the NRA) family. Rarely (if ever) is there a liberal there. If there is one, they know that they are greatly outnumbered and keep quiet.

So my cousin is married to a PRO GUN guy and since this is his home, he invited his parents and his Uncle. A lot people were there so I was in the dining room area with my cousins in-laws (none of my family around). As is polite during the holidays, you make small talk with strangers. They asked me what I did for a living and I told them (Gun Runner for the MAN)! :smiley: The subject quickly changed and we moved onto politics, specifically the Fast and Furious scandal that is currently going on.

And then he said it. The stereotypical anti-gun BS that “guns kill people.” This is why that Border Patrol Agent died in Mexico (because the gun killed him), NOT the drug cartel guy pulling the trigger. :suicide:

So me being me, I looked him in the eye, leaned forward across the table and immediately fired back with the statement that if a drunk driver kills your child with a Ford, was it Ford’s fault for making that car??? He was speechless and had this look of pure shock on his face. I got up and went into the other room.

A little bit later, my Aunt (who must have heard some of the conversation) came up to me and said something that I found very interesting. She said, “They” meaning liberals, think that they are in the MAJORITY and that everyone thinks the way they do. So when they come across someone like me they are just shocked that we do not believe what they do. From the few liberals I know, this seems to be the case. It’s as if they live in their own little world and never venture out of it.

Sad.

C4

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Ah, yes…

I have plenty of Libs in my family. They live in and around Washington D.C. and truly live in a bubble. They work for govt, are very well paid, and have a deep and profound belief (blind faith?) that govt IS the solution.

I continually remind them that in between the liberal triad of Washington DC, LA, and NYC there is large appendage call the United States of America where people do not think like them and do not live like them.

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There, but for the grace of God, go I.

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I learned that little factoid years ago. My so-called best friend slowly turned into a Michael Moore-type lunatron over the past 25 years. I can hardly stand to be around the guy anymore. And I think it’s more his arrogance that he’s “right” than his actual beliefs.

He convinced me over a number of years that people like that are a hopeless cause. I no longer try to steer any of them straight. When they finally succeed in destroying this country and those few of us who prepared for it start living and surviving the SHTF scenario, let them finally fall victim to what they caused. I won’t open the door to help a single one of them.

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I’m going to use the drunk driving Ford analogy next time I encounter a liberal.

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Except make it Subaru.

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What is funny is that they drive a Ford (did not know that at the time). So it worked out perfectly. :smiley:

C4

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It’s more pervasive than political lines. There’s no true depth to ANY thought processes of the rank-and-file citizen.

Example: I’m 11 years older than my youngest brother, so I’m more like an itinerant uncle to him. During one of my rare visits home, he was still in middle school or was a HS freshman, and some class of his was making a study of philosophy.

Anyhow, I diddybopped in from whatever random lunacy I was engaged in at the time, to be met with the demand of “Can you tell me what you think of this glass of juice!?”

…and resting in the middle of the table was a half-glass of some reddish fluid. On the counter nearby was a pitcher of the same stuff, as well as the lidless jar in which Mom kept the sugar, a wooden spoon, and a torn packet of Fruit Punch Kool-Aid. Oh yeah!

In my head…SNAP! Ohhhhthisistheglass-half-full/glass-half-emptyquestionIsimplyMUSTscrewwithhim!

“Okay, I’ll play your little freakin’ game…” I picked up the glass, drank the contents, stated “Too much sugar!” and majestically sailed out of the kitchen.

An outraged cry of “YOU DID IT WRONG!!!” followed in my wake.

“I cannot be held responsible for your teacher’s inability to accurately define the realm of subjectively correct answers to the assignment! It’s philosphy; THINK about it.”

I can’t conclusively say whether or not I planted the suggestion that there were more answers to the question, as posed, than “half-full/half-empty,” or that nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently-talented fool ( :smiley: )… but when you cherry-pick information, without analysis, or simply gobble up what some petty demagogue feeds you for no better reason than sounds pretty good, somebody with more mental agility and grasp of cause/effect (add a dash of sarcasm for flavor!) is gonna bake your noodle.

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I just bought a Ford last year. Clearly, I’m a part of the problem.

AC

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Yes. Your choice in auto’s has killed more people than my brand of firearm. :wink:

C4

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LOVE IT!

One time in college, I had to take a “diversity” class. Being Hispanic and having dealt with “much diversity” in my life, I thought it’d be interesting regardless of the requirement to take said class.

First day, I walk in to a classroom full of black football players. The prof then came in, he was also black. I was the fairest skinned individual in the room. No problem, I’m ok with that.

Unfortunately, the prof started off with race. Not a light introduction considering. He droned on for about a half an hour about racism, diversity, challenges, etc. He got stuck on one particular word though. Prejudice.

He finally asked the class if anyone in the room was prejudice. Sitting at the front of the class, I raised my hand. You could have heard a mouse fart were it not for all the chairs behind me squeaking a bit from their disdain for my answer. The prof got visibly frustrated and took a second to collect himself. He then asked why I was prejudiced and about what.

Being the smart ass that I am, I answered I’m prejudiced against people who say they have none. I went on to explain that many people have different prejudices and anyone that didn’t raise their hand either doesn’t understand the words meaning or they are lying to themselves because they’ve been brainwashed into believing the negative connotation of the word rather than understanding it. Got an A in the class and made some interesting friends to boot.

Most people who are afraid of guns, being liberal or not, simply don’t have the proper understanding of guns and lack the ability to see past their own brainwashed, rose colored glasses… IMO, of course. :wink:

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This, the vast majority are simply apathetic repeat what the picture box said types.

I think people are more naturally inclined to start off afraid of guns, maybe not naturally but they are nurtured that way one way or another. When I bought my first gun I was living with an ex-gf who wanted it in a safe. I explained it would do us no good locked up in a safe, and that it would be loaded in the nightstand. That turned into on top of the nightstand. That turned into arms length at all times. Once she actually THOUGHT about it, it all made sense, but her first inclination was “OH MY FUCK GUN KILL IT WITH FIRE”

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In my experience most liberals will end the debate/conversation once they are proven wrong about a belief of theirs. “We’ll just have to agree to disagree” or “facts are facts and we’re not going to change each others mind”. They’ll NEVER admit they are wrong about something especially the more devout they are. They are all for posting little “nuggets” about this or that but the second they are challenged on it, and then proven wrong they don’t want to talk about it anymore. The bitchy ones will often turn to name calling to prove their point.

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My life became much simpler when I unhitched many of my liberals relatives years ago, they simply weren’t good people and I didn’t need them adding problems to my life.

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This is the outcome I get so many times when I get in an inevitable argument with a liberal.

I used to date a chick who was a bleeding liberal, vegetarian, gun hater, etc… By the time we broke up after almost a year she loved to shoot guns, ate a 20oz piece of RARE prime rib at Christmas, and was starting to understand why us right wingers act the way we act.

Its funny that there are more and more conservatives now days and less and less liberals(at least I think thats the way things are going) and not the other way around. If the liberal way of thinking was the correct way, dont you think the tides would be going in the other direction?

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What to do when dealing with people like this…

I had a SGT that made it pretty simple in these situations, he said “trying to explain or talk only wastes your time, act or leave, those are the only two options.”

I find truth in this often enough, especially when dealing with liberals. When I hear the bull start huffing, I walk away.

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Well that’s just no fun! I like to terrorize them! They see me coming and hide/runaway. :smiley:

I really like to freak them out by telling them that I am not just any “gun dealer,” I am the WORST KIND! I’m the one that sell MO-CHINE GUNS and “Silencers” and all that other crazy stuff they only see in movies. :fie:

Good, bad or ugly, I’m the guy with the gun and they are not.

C4

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My God, what a line of complete and total brilliance!!! Grant, you have made my day, year and decade!!
Cheers my Brother!:neo:

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Libtards… :rolleyes:

I do get a slight smile on my face, thinking of their demise. They’ll be the ones who - no matter HOW they meet their end - will greet it with a deer-in-headlights look, and a confused girlish scream of, “WHUH?!?!?!” :eek:

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If you know it’s a liberal, you might have better luck using Toyota Prius!