questions to ask anti-gun or fence sitting females:
1. did you know that you have a greater chance of being raped than you do of having breast cancer? (wait for their 'no'.) well, you do what you can to protect yourself from breast cancer, don't you? (wait for their 'yes'.) well, then what do you do to protect yourself from the rapist?
2. are you telling me that i don't have a right to defend my children? (use the "for the children" card against them.)
3. what would you do if you knew somebody was following you in a car? what would you do if you knew somebody was trying to get into your home when you were alone with the children and your husband wasn't home? what would you do if you were staring down the intruder and you only had 10 seconds to do just one thing that would save the lives of your children. but remember, you have time to do one thing only. what would it be?
i always try to beat them at their own game. they like to play the emotional side of it and come up with banning guns. so i play the emotional side of it (especially to the women). and i absolutely [i]love[/i] to pull the "for the children" strings. heehee, works everytime!
other, less emotional questions, have more effect on men than women:
4. so you think gun control is the answer? (wait for their 'yes'.) do you know which cities have the strictest gun laws? (wait for 'yes' or 'no'. if 'yes', have them name them. if 'no', list them out.) do you know which cities have the highest crime rates? (wait for the 'no' cuz by now they're so flustered with the direction the argument is going they can't think straight. and you know where to go from that point i think.)
5. can you tell me how many times a year a gun is used in a crime? how many times a year a gun is used to kill someone intentionally (homicide)? can you tell me how many times a year a gun has prevented a crime and/or caught the bad guy? (it's a good idea to have these facts so you can answer them for the poor bastard since he won't be able to.)
6. ask them if they know what constitutes a "child" in that stupid accidental shootings of children statistics given by HCI. see [url]www.guntruths.com[/url] for the answer.
7. ask them if they think making guns illegal will a) remove guns from society and/or b) reduce crime. if they answer 'yes' to part A, ask them if making drugs illegal has removed drugs from society. if they answer 'yes' to part B, ask them if England and Australia, who have banned all guns, have seen a reduction in crime since the ban took effect. (you'll probably have to tell them the answers because they won't have looked into that part of the story. and don't forget to mention that execution-type murders in broad daylight are almost common on the streets of London since the bad guys know that the good subjects of the Crown are unarmed and can't resist.)
oops. after typing all of that, i realized that you probably want to be a little more objective than my questions were. sorry.