And the race is on.

It is unfortunate when a previously (seemingly )open minded person descends into the muck that is typical of so many anti-freedom - pro-ignorance folks who are against the 2nd Amendment.

Today's Pro-Ignorance Troll of the Day-- strongly contending for Pro-Ignorance Troll of the Year -- is MikeB302000.

So what earns MikeB his often earned title?

One of the commenters on the Kalamazoo site really expressed his ideas. liam9903 had this to say.

These nut jobs that like to walk around wearing guns to compensate for their lack of abilities elsewhere are to pathetic to even mock. I'm sure you could find a nutty Ron Paul supporter or racist rapture waiting survivalist in the group if you looked a little deeper. Most "2nd amendment advocates" shouldn't be aloud scissors much less the right to carry their gun around in public.

I must admit, at the risk of bringing a firestorm of comments down on my head, I agree pretty much with what the Gun Guys said, and even a little bit with Liam. I don't think it's normal behaviour to carry a gun, and picnics like these which are designed to "raise public awareness," seem like an attempt to make the abnormal normal.

Gee Mike, It isn't normal for whom? It isn't normal for most folks because the government has so far infringed on that which shouldn't be infringed that people don't realize they have the legal right to carry firearms. And in some cases, they don't have the right. The fact that governments and people like you are trying to remove our right to self defense is what is abnormal.

Not satisfied to insult the group's effort at free speech and to raise public awareness, MikeB goes on.

What Liam says, this question of inadequacy, never fails to elicit the strongest negative reaction from the pro-gun crowd. Sometimes I wonder if the ones who complain the loudest about that are the truly "inadequate" ones. Anyway, here's my take on it.

Maybe we are truly winning the battle of public perception because the anti's are reduced to discussing our "adequacy" issues. Sorry MikeB, the only inadequacy that I have is that I can't throw a rock at 850 feet per second as the old saying goes. By the way, you might want to look into this pheneom:

In psychology, psychological projection (or projection bias) is a defense mechanism where a person's personal attributes, unacceptable or unwanted thoughts, and/or emotions are ascribed onto another person or people. According to Wade, Tavris (2000) projection occurs when a person's own unacceptable or threatening feelings are repressed and then attributed to someone else.

Just saying....you know, it is never too late to seek the help.

MikeB is trying to win the pro-ignorance crowd's award for how many trite, tired, overworked, completely false cliches to be worked into a blog post. He's in the running to win it.

Gun-toting guys who talk about self-defense, are usually living in a fantasy world. The vast majority of these guys, I would bet, never need their weapons for self-defense. It's just an idea, a fantasy, like the one about fighting off the government gun-confiscators. It's an adolescent male fighting fantasy.

For some strange unknown reason, MikeB refuses to accept reality. We've have shown him Clayton Cramer's excellent site - Civilian Self Defense Blog many times. We've pointed out study after study showing anywhere from 100K to 2.5 Million defensive gun uses per year. The closed mind is truly a terrible waste.

Another aspect of that statement is the sexism "gun-toting guys". I've asked him to vist various different sites around the internet and leave a comment like that, but again...he doesn't want to let reality interfere with his world view.

Continuing his presentation of verbal froth completely lacking in information supporting it MikeB goes on

Meanwhile, here's the real problem. The more guns there are, the more get stolen, sold to the wrong people, and worst of all misused for suicides and homicides. Research we've all heard about says it's much more likely that a gun in the home will be misused than used for self defense.

See, the cliches and misinformation just keep rolling off his finger tips. I wouldn't have so much of a problem with this except for many, many months now, various bloggers have worked to present the truth to MikeB.
If you want a primer in 2nd amendment advocacy, go read his comments. Don't bother with the tripe in his post....just read the comments left by the pro-firearm crowd. He's hit just about every possible avenue and gun bloggers have completed shredded every argument; provding citations, sources, and statistics to back up the arguments.

Keep up this work MikeB....the year is just at the half way point. Don't let you complete lack of evidence or rational thought get in the way of you going for that title -- heck it is a requirement to earn the Pro-Ignorance Troll of the Year Award.

UPDATE-- Hilarious update even....head over and check out another response -- "I don't think it's normal behavior to be a homosexual" -- to the Troll of the Day's post at Aztec Red's great site Barack's Gun Lies. You will be glad you did.