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The A-Z guide to anti-gun vulture talking points on Facebook

A. Gun owners are never trained enough so are dangerous and shouldn’t be armed at all.

B. Gun owners who do train are crazy psychos living out their wannabe fantasies itching to shoot someone.

C. Even though it takes orders of magnitude more effort to become marginally effective with martial arts than a gun, you are better off using martial arts and not having a gun.

D. *Real Men* use their hands. This is why your mom and grandma shouldn’t have guns either.

E. Twitter randos who have never been punched in the face are experts on real life violence, and whatever you have personally experienced doesn’t count.

F. No matter how trained you are, it is never enough for the hypothetical attacker they make up. Sure, your concealed handgun might be enough to stop a regular robber or rapist, but what about if you get attacked by 20 Chechen terrorists with AKs, huh? Huh? (we call this the Dracula Riding Godzilla rule)

G. If the anti-gun vulture was ever in the military, this makes them a Military Trained Expert. Even though most of the time this means they got to put 20 rounds through an M-16 once in 1992.

H. No matter how many certified MMA bad asses or combat vets go “lol wut, dork? I’d rather have a gun.” the anti-gun Twitter vulture will remain undeterred.

I. Goldilocks Rules apply. No matter how much you know about guns, you’re either too ignorant and dangerous, or you know too much and that makes you dangerous. Whatever amount the anti-gun zealot knows is Just Right.

K. Whatever stats they pull out of their ass are sacrosanct. If you cite any numbers they reflexively scream “SOURCE?!” and then have some reason they won’t accept that source when provided. “The actual FBI Crime Statistics? LAME!”

L. At some point they’ll need to talk about how big our penises are, because guns are for compensation. Obviously the female gun owners are compensating for their tiny uteruses.  

M. “I believe in the Second Amendment BUUUUUUUUT-” (insert statist bullshit here)

N. If you insist on using terms correctly and words having actual definitions, clearly this demonstrates you are a fanatic. Words mean whatever they need to mean in that moment, especially legal ones.

O. “Castle Doctrine” is a secret right wing code word that means that you can just shoot whoever you want.

P.  Get ready for a history lesson about “what the founders really intended” from some dumb motherfucker who was stoned through every history class in high school.  

Q. Everybody knows big blue cities are way safer than the scary red state flyover country.

R. Gun control isn’t racist! Sure, historical gun control was all about keeping guns out of the hands of the “undesirables” like freed slaves, Indians, and the Irish, but that’s totally different now!

S. AR-15s are the most dangerous gun that’s ever existed. It can fire ten thousand ultra deadly murder bullets a second and each one can explode a moose from a thousand yards away. There is nothing this miracle death machine can’t do.

T. lol your AR-15s are utterly useless against a tyrannical government.

U. The NRA is an all-powerful, super evil entity which has tricked innocent Americans into wanting ultra deadly assault rifles, to satisfy their incessant blood lust. They do this through their ultra powerful marketing, like giving out free hats.

V. Anti-gun organizations are all totally innocent grass roots movements made up of moms, orphans, and kittens, funded entirely by bake sales, who just want the best for all Americans.  

W. “I grew up around guns” makes you an unassailable subject matter expert on the topic.

X. The gun industry is made up of giant soulless mega corporations who make trillions of dollars off of selling Glocks to preschoolers. This message was brought to you by benevolent small businesses like the six companies that own most of the world’s media.

Y. Even though everything the anti-gunner proposes is ass backwards and would just make the problems they are crying about worse, and everywhere they get their way good people are disarmed while evil doers are empowered…they CARE HARDER than we do. So we’re the real bad guys.  

Z. “You sound angry.”

The new and improved version of Residue by Steve Diamond

Most of you know Steve as my cohost from WriterDojo and coauthor on Servants of War. Residue was his first published novel that went through quite the saga with a bunch of different publishing houses. So now Steve’s got the rights back, is publishing it himself, and best of all has gone through and improved it to make the definitive author’s edition.

Plus the blurbs are me and Terry Brooks, so that’s pretty cool. 😀

Residue

This is a really cool read and I hope you guys check it out.

The eARC for Down These Mean Streets is out now

We’ve got an incredible bunch of authors for this 3rd anthology of noir sci-fi and fantasy stories. It came out really good.

https://www.baen.com/down-these-mean-streets-earc.html

An eARC is the Electronic Advanced Reader Copy. These are the versions of books that get sent out to reviewers before the actual book comes out. Baen realizes that some of you don’t like to wait so they make these early versions available for sale. eARCs aren’t the final edited version, but we got these in so early they should be fairly close.

Monster Hunter Memoirs: Fever – Out today!

Fever is on shelves now. eBook and audio are available for download HERE.

We are currently sitting at the #1 spot in Urban Fantasy on Audible. Because you guys are awesome. 🙂 Seriously, my fans rock.

Thanks for spreading the word, and when you get a chance after you’ve read or listened to it, please take a minute to leave an honest review. Jason and I appreciate it.

Now back to work on Graveyard of Demons.

EDIT: Currently #1 in multiple categories, #4 in scifi and fantasy, and #38 on ALL of Audible.