Weaken everyone else, and preserve their own advantages:

When asked by The Daily Caller his thoughts on the difficulty of getting a concealed carry permit in New York City and how rare it is for such permits to be issued by the NYPD, Rangel replied, “I’m glad to hear you say that very few people get it.” “We don’t need that many guns,” he continued. “I didn’t know that briberies were involved in getting a gun, and that is wrong, but overall, if it is difficult to get a concealed weapon permit, I’m glad to hear that.” Rangel went on to say that his own law-abiding constituents in Harlem shouldn’t have to carry guns for their own protection. However, the same rules don’t apply to the political elite. “Law-abiding citizens just shouldn’t have to carry a gun. You’re not gonna push me in that direction,” he said, standing just five feet from a Capitol Police officer, who stood at his post by the House Speaker’s Lobby. TheDC noted to Rangel he and other members of Congress are protected by armed members of the U.S. Capitol Police. “Well that’s a little different. I think we deserve–I think we need to be protected down here.” Rangel laughingly insisted.

They are a case study in feeling an emotion, and then working out a logical belief system that supports the emotion. Bodies could be dropping like flies in Chicago, yet no Chicago resident would ever need a firearm.

No Congressman has been killed in decades, if not centuries, and yet Rangel needs his armed protection, because he is under threat, and “that is different.”

His thought process begins with a fear of being shot, so nobody should have guns. Then when asked about the men who protect him, he feels a fear of being shot, so he says he needs protection, because of his position. It is emotional logic. It is also why they are so susceptible to the amygdala hijack. That emotion is what hits them right between the eyes. Logic is barely on their radar.

The best way to attack it is to couch a question in terms of out-grouping him, to trigger an emotional response which will bend him in the direction of the answer you want.

Examples would be, “So you think poor people who deal with crime, in neighborhoods with a lot of shootings, are less worthy of protection than you?” Pin him down with “Are they under less threat?,” “Are they less valuable as people?,” “so you think they are expendable?,” and so on.

Out-group him with his own base of support, and then force him to either out-group himself further by holding his line, or bend to your position, to re-in-group himself.

Clearly from a practical standpoint, the left are all lying scumbags, out for themselves. The best you can do is use their emotions against them and expose their hypocrisy to shame them into silence.

At least that is the best you can do until the Apocalypse hits…