Update

You may recall that I wrote about the social friend that kept trying to bait me into a political debate. Her technique was that she would make a statement about some issue or bring up a TV show plot that was about some political issue. But she always began by talking to my wife, while stealing glances at me to make sure I was listening. That was my cue to be distracted. I would suddenly see something "over there," and look away.

But she finally hit one of my hot buttons, and I couldn't help myself.

She began by talking about gun control in general. Now, she knows I support Concealed Carry laws, but really, gun control is not a hot button issue by itself, for me. I am not even a gun owner. But what does get me going is when liberals talk gun control. And what gets me most is the way they are so completely and utterly dishonest in their arguments.

They have an army of straw men. They want to argue about gun shows. They want to argue about background checks. They want to argue about fully automatic weapons. They want to argue about magazine size. They want to argue about "assault weapons" even though they have a hard time precisely defining what one is. They want to argue about the Castle Doctrine. But mostly they want to have their mantra accepted as a truism. Their mantra is "less guns are better."

So she starts in bemoaning how the Colorado shooter had amassed 6,000 rounds of ammunition by shopping over the Internet, and didn't undergo a background check!

"You just shouldn't be able to get that much ammunition at once without sending up a red flag!"

"If shooting is your hobby and you fire off a hundred rounds a day, that's only a two months supply."

"But he bought full body armor! That should have tipped somebody off."

"Did he buy all that at the same place?"

"N0."

"Do you really want somebody checking out your purchases to see if they "raise any flags?"

At this point she hadn't pushed my button yet. But then she brought up Trayvon Martin and concealed carry and Bo Morrison and the Castle Doctrine. That did it.

"I will remind you that Trayvon Martin and Bo Morrison were two black teenagers killed a half a country apart. Meanwhile in Barrack Obama's hometown of Chicago they had 100 dead black teenagers this year by June, and they were all killed by illegal guns, and nobody claimed the Castle Doctrine as a defense. But for some strange reason we never hear about that. And I'll point something else out too, Chicago has the most restrictive hand gun ownership laws in the country. Illinois is the only state that doesn't allow concealed carry."

"Well, those people need to keep there laws off my uterus!"

I kid you not.