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<blockquote data-quote="gerhard1" data-source="post: 3571602" data-attributes="member: 5391"><p>This is why I started this thread.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center"><img src="https://d3k81ch9hvuctc.cloudfront.net/company/LHSLvz/images/7750b320-898d-4745-95a2-30bb75824c5c.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>He was driving me to the studio to be on the Tucker Carlson show and he just told me halfway through our conversation about guns that he can't understand why anyone would want an AR-15 after, as he put it, he saw what his rifle did to people during his time at war.</p><p></p><p>I know what I want to say, but will he really care? Let's face it, he's been to war, he's killed people, and I can see he still wears the weight of it on his shoulders.</p><p></p><p>What the hell am I supposed to say to this man? I have one of my earpods in my hands and stare at the back of my driver's head as I search for the answers I just asked myself in my head.</p><p></p><p>At that moment, I had all the answers but I knew all of the answers I had would be worthless to him.</p><p></p><p>I've never been to war. I've never shot and killed someone, but he had. So I was stumped.</p><p></p><p>So instead of trying to win the conversation, I just simply said, "I understand, I don't agree but I understand".</p><p></p><p>He became quiet for a second as if I stumped him the same way he stumped me. After this, what was a low-lying combative conversation simply became just a conversation.</p><p></p><p>I then told him all the reasons I had and he told me his reasons. I didn't change his mind, but I believe I changed his perception of not only guns but the gun community.</p><p></p><p><strong>The Anti-Gun Lobby has done a great job making the gun community seem like a bunch of crazy lunatics and there are a bunch of people in the middle that fall for this false caricature. Because of this, sometimes it's better to simply understand before you disagree.</strong></p><p></p><p>It's humanizing and can go a long way in moving a conversation out of intellectual combat and into mutual understanding. We don't need to try to win every gun conversation, sometimes simply changing a perception is more effective than winning the conversation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gerhard1, post: 3571602, member: 5391"] This is why I started this thread. [CENTER][IMG]https://d3k81ch9hvuctc.cloudfront.net/company/LHSLvz/images/7750b320-898d-4745-95a2-30bb75824c5c.png[/IMG][/CENTER] He was driving me to the studio to be on the Tucker Carlson show and he just told me halfway through our conversation about guns that he can't understand why anyone would want an AR-15 after, as he put it, he saw what his rifle did to people during his time at war. I know what I want to say, but will he really care? Let's face it, he's been to war, he's killed people, and I can see he still wears the weight of it on his shoulders. What the hell am I supposed to say to this man? I have one of my earpods in my hands and stare at the back of my driver's head as I search for the answers I just asked myself in my head. At that moment, I had all the answers but I knew all of the answers I had would be worthless to him. I've never been to war. I've never shot and killed someone, but he had. So I was stumped. So instead of trying to win the conversation, I just simply said, "I understand, I don't agree but I understand". He became quiet for a second as if I stumped him the same way he stumped me. After this, what was a low-lying combative conversation simply became just a conversation. I then told him all the reasons I had and he told me his reasons. I didn't change his mind, but I believe I changed his perception of not only guns but the gun community. [B]The Anti-Gun Lobby has done a great job making the gun community seem like a bunch of crazy lunatics and there are a bunch of people in the middle that fall for this false caricature. Because of this, sometimes it's better to simply understand before you disagree.[/B] It's humanizing and can go a long way in moving a conversation out of intellectual combat and into mutual understanding. We don't need to try to win every gun conversation, sometimes simply changing a perception is more effective than winning the conversation. [/QUOTE]
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