This evening I sat down to dinner with my wife, two very young daughters, my wife's brother, and my wife's mother... We all have dinner together often (several times a week). Every time, I do the grocery shopping, I set the table, I do the cooking, and I get stuck doing the dishes. I'm the only conservative, but my wife is coming around to my side (after 10 years of marriage). My M-I-L and B-I-L are VERY liberal. I guess it shows in the fact that they never bring food, or offer to buy groceries, or offer to wash dishes... They are happy to take, take, take, and never offer to give anything back.
Anyway, as we were sitting down to eat, I said, ""Did you guys see the headline on CNN today? There was a sheriff's deputy at that school but he chose to hide outside instead of going in to take out the bad guy. CNN had another headline that said something like, "A good guy with a gun doesn't always stop a bad guy with a gun" which I found upsetting because they were taking one instance with a coward and trying to say that all good guys with guns are worthless."
My brother in law, a 45 year old with no job who lives with his mother, said... "It's easy to think that you would go save those kids, but in the heat of the moment you don't know what you would really do. I would have stayed outside too."
I said, "Well, that's obvious because you are not the kind of person who would take a position in LE. And, after two tours in Iraq, I know exactly which way I run when gun fire starts, that's toward the fight, not away from it."
I was actually surprised when my wife jumped in and took my side. I was so happy that she did that.
That was enough to make me change the conversation to something less political. That's all. I just wanted to complain about my liberal family members AND brag about my wife.
What would you have said to my loser B-I-L?