Their fear is obvious even on DU!

[Squinch]

19. Slaughters always bring them out. And not all of them are new. Some have been here for

quite a while.

They have an obvious MO which is to ask questions until they find an area in which they can drown you in a discussion about minutiae. A few of their tells: "Exactly what gun laws are you supporting." At which point, if you do not have the laws worked out as if you are a Senate markup session, they will launch into how terrible that law would be.

If that doesn't work, they look for something in the poster's past that they can use to say, "You don't have any credibility." Yesterday I saw a troll - not new to DU at all - pull up a post from 2012 to argue with a poster about. Had nothing to do with gun control, just an offhand remark FROM 2012 that they could misrepresent to try to discredit the poster they were talking about.

Their ultimate goal is to make you think this is an impossible problem. It isn't. It is a simple problem to fix. There are about 12 major measures that more than 75% of Americans support passing right now. They would make a huge improvement. There are dozens of measures that other countries have used that would stop these slaughters tomorrow.

We have spent enough time coddling the gun humpers and gun trolls. My advice is to not get caught in their scripted bog, ridicule them and laugh at them for as long as it is fun to do so, and don't let them discourage you.