I saw a post where a woman was praising a good guy with a gun for stopping a recent attempted mass shooting.
An anti-gun bigot piped up, demanding she give him "a couple more" examples of this thing he claimed was incredibly rare- a good guy with a gun stopping a mass shooting.
The original poster asked if he would publicly apologize if she gave him 2 examples.
He came back and said that 2 examples out of "500 mass shooting incidents per year" would be meaningless and would only show how rarely a good guy with a gun stops a mass shooting.
Hey, he was the one who specifically mentioned "a couple"; it's too bad if he suddenly got scared when he realized she could give him that, and more. As others pointed out.
In other words, he admitted he wasn't really interested in facts. He had his agenda, and he was sticking to the script, no matter what.
Other people tore his dishonesty and bad stats apart in the comments, but all he did was buckle down and deny, deflect, and try to move the goalposts (which he also denied doing).
I've watched the same thing happen so many times. They make a demand for evidence, but then change their demand as soon as they realize what they've stepped into. And usually, it's "No, that doesn't count!, It's not a source I trust because it doesn't affirm my beliefs!"
You're not going to argue something out of a position they weren't argued in to. You can't fight an illogical delusion with logic.
It's funny to watch them fight so hard to stay wrong.
