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What I'd LOVE to hear is for someone to have Helmke swear an oath to tell the truth in the presence of a Notary Public (making his statements legally-binding) and then ask Helmke--point blank--if he owns any firearms, or if he now has or has ever possessed a license to carry a firearm. But you'd have to do that under oath for it to mean anything. Finding a Notary in DC shouldn't be too difficult though...
Something else I'd like to hear is for someone to take on the whole "racist roots of gun control" issue with people like Helmke. I'd LOVE to hear how he would explain away the fact that EVERY gun control law ever enacted in the US stemmed from racist sentiments and yellow journalism.
Ask him why he thinks that the lives of law-abiding poor people and minorities are less worthy of self defense than his own life, or the lives of people like Nancy Pelosi or Barbara Mikulsk or Chuck Shumer (all of whom have, or have had in the past, Concealed Carry Permits...)
Ask him why cities like Baltimore, Chicago, DC and LA have such high gun-related violence when they have the most strict gun ownership laws in the nation. Ask him why New Hampshire--with what are arguable the least amount of restrictions--has some of the lowest violent crime statistics.
When he brings up the fact that cities have 'diverse populations" while NH is more "culturally homogeneous", ask him why he blames crime on minorities.
Ask him why he feels it necessary to punish the 97% of the population who are law-abiding, because of the criminal and sociopathic actions of those 3% who break the law. And ask him why he thinks that criminals who use guns in crime will suddenly decide that they need to start obeying any new gun control laws he'd like to impose?
Ask him why he thinks that law-abiding citizens who live in these cities shouldn't be able to protect their families from the lawless predations of criminals. And ask him why states that his group labels as "backward" and "uneducated" like NH, VA, PA, NC, and MT seem to be able to trust their citizens with firearms. Ask him why places like DC, NY and MD--with some of the highest levels of education and average incomes in the nation--seem to believe their citizens are inherently untrustworthy with firearms, and should not be allowed to protect themselves, or even own firearms for sporting and recreation purposes...
I'm sure nobody needs to remind you of this, but please keep it in mind--STAY ON TOPIC. Helmke and his ilk like to try and trip people up by constantly changing topic, jumping around from subject to subject, and throwing in non-sequitors and random statistics that have NO real bearing on what is being discussed. Keep him ON TOPIC, and every SINLGE time he tries this distraction tactic, you need to politely STOP the discussion, and CALL HIM OUT on his logical fallacies and statistical shenanigans.
People like Helmke are sociopaths and have no shame, so it is impossible to embarrass him in his own lies, but you CAN show him for the lying, duplicitous, racist, illogical FUDD-monger he is.
Every time he uses the phrase "the wrong kind of people", you STOP the conversation and ask if he means, like people who wear glasses (Pol Pot's wrong kinds of people) or African Americans (Baltimore, NC, DC, Chicago, and LA's "wrong kinds of people"), or people who are political dissenters (China, Germany, Iraq, Iran, or the USSR's "wrong kinds of people") or may he means Armenians (Turkey's "wrong kinds of people"), or maybe he means Jews (the "wrong kinds of people" in Poland according to Germany in the late 1930's), or perhaps he means people who aren't wealthy or politically connected (DC and Chicago's "wrong kinds of people"), or maybe he's referring to Italian and Irish immigrants (The NFA's "wrong kinds of people"), or MAYBE he's referring to Native Americans (the BLM, BIA and DOD's "wrong kinds of people"). Every time an "anti" uses the phrase "wrong kinds of people" we need to CALL THEM OUT on the racist, classist, and ultimately genocidal purpose of such justifications.
Hold his feet to the fire of Truth, and make him squirm from the burning heat of his own sociopathic hatred of humanity.
Give 'em hell, and best of luck! I'll be listening...