What is your emotional response to gun-rights advocates?

We hear it on the news, sometimes we hear it in conversations around us, we may hear it from relatives and friends——-an argument for gun-rights here in the US.

We either engage or not, think of counter-arguments, then keep them, express them and eventually forget them. Using our own intellect we may even try to apply logical reasoning to prove our case to others, even to ourselves. Guns are the problem.

But “emotionally”——how do you respond and react? What and how do you feel when you hear gun-rights defenders argue their case and you couldn’t help but be annoyed with their reasoning?

In my case, to my surprise I found myself imagining doing a stand-up in front of a crowd saying the following words…

[ Just bugs the heck out of me when gun-loving people say it’s not the gun’s fault that kids got killed with it. Blame anyone or anything…anything just not the gun.

I don’t do debates. I would never be good at being calm face to face with somebody who is so afraid of hurting a gun’s feelings.

What if it’s their own kids who got shot? Would they run or drive to the school at supersonic speed screaming, “Oh my God, please save the gun used in this shooting! Please don’t let anything bad happen to it!”

Just bugs the heck out of me.

When these gun-worshiping people weigh these things in their heads is it possible they could be thinking, “Hey, yeah. That’s just terrible. Kids died. Unforgivable. But know what’s more unforgivable? Losing my gun-rights. My gun-rights is the law. My gun-rights is sacred. My gun-rights…is my right. It is untouchable.”

Bullshit.

Kids should be the untouchable ones! By miles after miles after miles compared to guns!

Bugs the heck out of me.

I don’t do debates. But if I do get the chance…and the guts to go along with it…to say something to a gun-carrying, you know…ridiculous person face to face…I would quickly and assertively say to this person, “Hey…what’s up?”

“What’s up you gun-stroking…gun-licking…gun swallowing…ridiculous person?”