moon_custafer | Can't Sleep, Someone is Wrong on the Internet

Anyone know how to hide a specific person's posts on Facebook? I don't care if he sees mine, but -- well there's this guy who's a friend of a friend; politically he's at the opposite extreme from me but I've been trying not to get riled by it.(cut for possible triggers - gun violence) However, today he posted about the recent shooting and he went there - he made the comment that "this monster could have been stopped if only there'd been a law-abiding citizen on hand with a gun."

OK.

I am totally a bleeding-heart liberal.

I've never owned firearms myself.

I *still* think I have a more realistic understanding of them than this guy does.

For instance, I know that outside an action movie, good intentions do not automatically equal shooting ability. If a maniac goes on a shooting spree in a public place without prior warning, just how helpful is a bystander with another gun likely to be, unless s/he is good enough to pick the shooter off without hitting any bystanders, in a chaotic situation, while the target is firing back and lots of people are probably running around looking for cover?

If the law-abiding citizen has police or military training, s/he would be able to stay focussed amid the panic; but I'm still not sure s/he'd be accurate enough with a handgun to risk firing back in the $%*&!ing middle of a crowd of civilians.

There's a reason snipers stay above the fray and use rifles.

Anyway, anyone know if there's a way to put this guy on "ignore?" Failing that, I may have to just block him and damn the consequences if he takes offense.