I have seen a meme on social media, something about “Arguing with a leftist largely consists of them deliberately pretending to not understand something that is obvious, and then arguing against that misstated position.” What you are describing is a logical fallacy called a strawman argument. We see it everywhere. I don’t think its entirely ignorance, I think in many cases the leftist you are arguing with knows they are being disingenuous, but they are hoping others are too stupid to know it.
A leftist blog complains about a gun dealer who has lost his FFL, stopped selling actual firearms, and pivots to selling parts and accessories for firearms. One of the major misstatements is this:
The M16 bolt carrier group is the part worth flagging. It’s legal to own and common in semi-auto builds. But it’s also a prerequisite for converting an AR-15 to full-automatic because the geometry of a standard AR-15 carrier won’t work with an auto sear.
Of course, they fail to mention that there are several parts required to convert an AR15 into full auto, and the full auto BCG is only one of them. The one the ATF has chosen to define as the key component of converting an AR15 to a machine gun is the auto sear. If an FA BCG is legal to own, then why wouldn’t the store be able to sell them?
The blog article then meanders off topic into the non sequitur of COVID death rates in the same county where the gun dealer is located:
People there apparently were so anti-life, they maintained the highest death rate from COVID-19 compared to any other county in the nation: One death out of every 132 people.
before pivoting into yet another accusation that this is because they are all racist there because something racist once happened there:
Speaking of heavily armed white supremacists being anti-life, Mann today still lives in an area known for the 1989 naming of “noose road“, near a sundown town of many lynchings. It was said in Hays, Kansas that “Blacks were not allowed to stay overnight”, keeping alive a Jim Crow “legacy that kind of hung over the town going back to the lynching.”
Then goes on to babble about another unrelated meandering:
On the same day Custombilt filed for bankruptcy, California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit against distribution of 3D-printable ghost gun files and machine gun conversion devices. One state is suing over digital blueprints. Another is goosing a revoked dealer to liquidate physical machine gun components from a bankruptcy warehouse into unknown “noose” hands, no questions asked.
Showing that the left doesn’t REALLY support the First Amendment, or they would realize publishing plans is protected speech. Still, that last quote is about as coherent as Joe Biden rambling about Corn Pop and children braiding his leg hair. (That’s how you use a non sequitur for maximum effect.)
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