Quote Originally Posted by screwtype
Actually, Goofball's statement was an argument. He was responding to this statement of yours:

This tends to make the left more emotional and, well, angry when debating issues. It's all well and good to discuss a purely theoretical issue. But when you have a strong emotional investment in it -- when you have skin in the game, as it were -- it becomes not an academic debate but a heated argument."

To which he replied:

Riiiggghhhht....

You can take the emotion out of my arguments when you pry it out of my cold, dead hands.
Hello,

This is incorrect. An argument involves premises and a conclusion. The above is a statement.

Goofball's comment was clearly an ironical reference to the statement of the late NRA leader, Charlton Heston, when he said:

You can take my gun from me when you can pry it from my cold, dead hands.

The point being that Heston's attachment to his big metal penis extension was about as transparently emotional as it gets.

But it seems that Goofball's point went over your head Pindar. Hmmm...maybe there's something to that theory about progressives being smarter after all...
Prying one's gun from their cold dead hands predates Heston's use of it as head of the NRA. I have seen it on tee shirts and bumper stickers for as long as I can remember.