"That data doesn't count because it doesn't agree with me!"

Browsing through the jungle of Leftist X posts, I realize there are a lot of very vocal people who really, really hate guns and anyone who owns them (maybe with the bizarre exception of government thugs, who they seem to trust completely on this one issue).

In fact, since X screwed up their setting where "For you" is the default instead of "Following", it's the only thing I see until I switch back to "Following".

Admittedly, that may be a function of the Al Gore Rhythm feeding me things that will get me to engage, rather than a true reflection of percentages. But I know it makes me feel like "They" ARE coming to take my guns. Or, "they" are encouraging armed government goons and other political criminals to take my guns, since few have the guts to do so in person. This radicalizes me a bit.

Of course, a lot of the most vocal anti-gun bigots are in other countries. Others are professional activists against your liberty, no matter the specific topic. So, zero credibility, but loads of very loud opinion.

These nasties frequently demand data to show that they are wrong, but they pre-reject any data they are presented with. It never changes.

In fact, I had been in a discussion with one for a couple of days, and she kept demanding I show her the data that would prove she was wrong, and trying to taunt me with made-up quotes of me expressing my inability to do so. 

I finally posted this outside that conversation, as a setup:

If someone won't show you the data you demand, it's not because it doesn't exist, it's because no one is going to do your work for you only to have you say, "That doesn't count". Anti-gun bigots- I'm looking at YOU. And you *know* that's what you do every time.

Then, I gave her a link to an X account (associated with John R. Lott, Jr.) that does nothing but present exactly the kind of data she'd been demanding all along. And I waited.

Guess what her reaction was. 

If you were to guess she made up a quote to express what she hallucinated I was thinking, pretended I had been desperately looking for anything to support my point, and then said the source was unreliable, you'd be right. 

I replied by sharing the post I'd made predicting her reaction and said I'd nailed it.

Then I walked away. I wasted more time on her than I should have, but I knew how it was going to go long before she did it- the first time she demanded data. This ain't my first rodeo.

I hope this is a vocal ignorant, unethical minority, and not a general attitude. 

I do see people in other countries posting: "Americans- NEVER give up your guns because you don't want to be in our position", so I know those bigots don't speak for everyone. But there are too many of them. And they are loud and bold and filled with hate.

These people can scream “It’s the guns!” all day long. That doesn’t change reality and make it true. It just makes them stubborn and obnoxious.

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