Flechette
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During a conversation about bump stocks (and my vehement opposition to banning them) I got to get a progressive to stop and think about the issue.
I simply (politely) posed the question, "Why don't you go another country?" to which the progressive angrily retorted, "Why don't you?"
I said that there are literally dozens of countries that offer what he wants (gun control, posh unemployment benefits, "hate speech" laws, socialized medicine, etc).
There is only one country that offers me the ability to exercise the rights *I* hold dear. People like me are backed into a corner and will fight like a cornered animal. He has options, we don't.
His anger faded and he eventually said that he had never looked at it that way.
Did I put a crack in his ideological wall? Who knows.
I simply (politely) posed the question, "Why don't you go another country?" to which the progressive angrily retorted, "Why don't you?"
I said that there are literally dozens of countries that offer what he wants (gun control, posh unemployment benefits, "hate speech" laws, socialized medicine, etc).
There is only one country that offers me the ability to exercise the rights *I* hold dear. People like me are backed into a corner and will fight like a cornered animal. He has options, we don't.
His anger faded and he eventually said that he had never looked at it that way.
Did I put a crack in his ideological wall? Who knows.