The most effective tool I’ve ever learned in dealing with those fools is to turn the tables on them with their own words.
Call me a loudmouth? I tell them they don’t like dissent and are squashing my free speech. I’m socially unacceptable? I tell them this isn’t church and they are forcing their morality on me. I cling to guns and religion? They’re elitists picking on the little guy who works hard to support his family, and religion hating liberals who want my guns so they can enforce their atheism at gunpoint.
You’d be amazed. It shuts them to down everytime when you portray them as the oppressors they are.
Oh, I know. I use similar tactics all the time. :)
I was just showing some examples.