(apologies to Winston Churchill)
Recently, it seems as if I’ve been attracting attention from a collection of gun-loving trolls who unable to fathom that guns aren’t the be-all and end-all of human existence. For whatever reason(s), they’ve decided that cheap personal insults are a GREAT way to convince me of the absolute and iron-clad moral superiority of their argument. They’ve engaged in some petty name-calling that’s as childish as it is absurd…not that I particularly care what someone with such severe intellectual limitations may think of me.
Perhaps these intellectually challenged gun nuts can’t muster the brain power to understand why someone might question their argument. Perhaps they really do cling to their guns with a devotion they hold for nothing else in their lives. Perhaps their devotion to their guns trumps anything and everything else- even human life. Worst of all, perhaps they’re so narrowly focused on the conviction that their rights are “God-given” that no other ideas can be allowed through that filter.
Or perhaps they’re really just ignorant, knuckle dragging morons who couldn’t construct a cogent, defendable argument if their life depended on it. Guess which way I’m leaning on that question?
Whatever the reason, I just want to make one thing clear: I don’t respect the opinions of those unable and/or unwilling to conduct themselves in a respectful manner. I accept that not everyone will agree with me, and I’m not threatened by that. If you want to have a civil exchange of ideas, I’m more than willing to listen to what you have to say…but if you’re so morally and intellectually stunted that your idea of a valid argument is a gratuitous personal insult involving speculation about my sexuality, you have bigger problems than you know. If that’s going to be your modus operandi, I’d suggest you take your limited intellectual capacity over to InfoWars.com or Breitbart.com, where you’ll be welcomed with open arms and welcomed as a Hero of the People. I have neither time, the energy, nor the inclination to to trifle with you here.
