Like any other sane person,  I hate the idea of having to kill someone.  (Or shoot them.)
But by far I hate the idea of being shot or killed than being the one doing the shooting.

It's a matter of priorities.  My first priority is myself.    Anyone who threatens me with deadly force
is going to become my own personal statistic.   I won't like doing it but I sure as hell won't hesitate
when it comes to a choice between him living and me living.   I'm going to live if I have to kill everyone
in the room to do it!

Your friend is a mental midget.


CJ

Quoted: Some observations: Each time my co-worker, Sean, was shown the holes in his arguments, he immediately switched gears and tried a new angle/argument to use.  He never acknowledged the problems with his own reasoning, but simply tried to divert the argument in hopes of proving gun ownership wrong. He continually made blatantly uninformed comments, going so far as to suggest that the Bill of Rights isn't really a part of the Constitution. In the end, it was abundantly clear that his stance against guns was entirely based on his own emotional reactions to guns, and his emotional reaction to those who posess guns. Frankly, I don't think our conversation helped him at all.  He seems to have entrenched himself emotionally, and won't look at the issue any other way.

Hey, you've just discovered how liberals "think": they don't think at all; they "feel."

You will never win an argument with an emotion-based person (i.e., a Liberal) using logic, because they don't use or understand logic.  They have been taught to ignore anything that doesn't support their position, and to change attack angles everytime one of their points is proven wrong.

The thing is, you can easily "win" arguments with liberals, but you have to do something that few conservatives are able, or willing, to do: use EMOTION-based arguments.

Liberals "think" they are putting themselves in the shoes of the "victims" (who they universally feel are "beneath" them, and usually refer to as 'the little guy' or 'the common man'), but they don't actually do this.  But if YOU do so, they won't have much of a defense against it.

For example, talk about the Rowandan's who were disarmed, and how unfair it was for their weapons to be taken away, and how sad it was that they were slaughtered as a result (300,000 killed in a month, mostly by machetes).  You force them to either agree with your position, or defend the killers.  Use many similar examples, always talking about how sad and hopeless the victims felt, and how angry it makes you that the government (or whoever) took away their means of defense.  Eventually, they will be worked up along with you, and will be open to the consideration of "radical" ideals, such as CCW for "the little guy."

Never use logic and try to win that way; you'll never convert emotions using logic.  Use EMOTION against them, and you'll sway them away from their lunacy, and, over time, you can slowly introduce logic to reinforce their new emotional stance.

-Troy