Strange Starbucks Conversation

[jhood001]

I admire your sentiment, I really do. But I only have so much time in life, and I have found it mostly wasted on those who have already formed an opinion. You can educate the ignorant, you can sway the open minded. You will not change the mind of someone who's opinion is firmly set. The best you will get, and seldom at that, is someone who now believes you are ok to own a gun, but everyone else still isn't. I will grant you that I certainly don't know whether this woman could be swayed. I do know that I would not be the one to do it, particularly before I've had my Grande Flat White.

I couldn't agree with you more.

And she probably wouldn't change her mind after one conversation. But she might stop to think and that at least interrupts the continuous flow of bullshit that she is used to consuming. Maybe it is a start. Maybe it is a waste of time.

All we can do is: try to change opinions ourselves, bitch about how things are, bitch louder in the hopes that someone else will listen and change things for us, or go to war for what we believe in.

I prefer to start at the first step and skip the other two in the middle. 'Bitching' doesn't accomplish anything and we have far too much of it going on around here.

Thanks for sharing the original post.

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Buy her the stupid coffee she ordered (and her man-servant) and give her your name and number and invite her to come shooting with you some time. Do it while putting up a friendly smile and asking questions about their lives and what they're up to 'today'.

She may or may not take you up on the offer (and you may not even want to deliver on it), but she will second guess her thoughts every time someone else tells her that YOU are what is wrong with everything in her world.

It works. I've done it. Try it.

The problem with this snowflake is she led with violence, even if only joking. She saw an image of firearm and her brain went to violence. I would not put a firearm in her hands. She is probably one of the Libs who thinks guns should be banned because she knows she couldn't handle owning one.

The silent husband is another red flag that she has issues.

[Aloha_Shooter]

"Well, I guess it's a good thing I'm not unbalanced like the Democrats who shot up Gabby Giffords, the theater in Aurora, or Virginia Tech ... or someone who would even think of something like that."

[Firehaus]

I've always found replying at a high volume " I'm sorry ma'am, I'm not into to swinging" will totally throw them off once everyone starts to stare at them.


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[Irving]

Yeah, interrupt her ODALOOP.

[wyome]

Yeah, interrupt her ODALOOP.

OODALoop.....

[BushMasterBoy]

[BPTactical]

Weak sauce.
Quit being nice to these fuckheads.
Any response from you will be wrong to them.
Make it sting.
Fuck'em

[Aloha_Shooter]

... or you could always use the Booger response ... (go to 1:01)

[jhood001]

Be abrasive to them or try to convert them.

One approach has a possible beneficial outcome. The other doesn't, but it sure might feel good.

The enemies of our beliefs are deploying the exact same approach... just in different methods.

Out-think your opposition or back into the ropes and try to preserve yourself and your beliefs for as long as you can... Deflection and preservation isn't an offensive strategy.

'Compromise' isn't an option, but approaching a situation from a feigned position of compromise can potentially open doors.

Displace, unnerve and rattle their initial expectations. And then pump in what you know is true.

It won't work often, but it will be a 'win' when it does.

Just my opinion.