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There is a lot to say about that whole article, but I found this paragraph in particular to be troubling.

And when you say something is part of your culture, you're placing it beyond reasoned judgment. Its status as a component of culture infuses it with value that can't be argued against. I don't tell you that your religious rituals are silly, because they have deep meaning for those within that culture. Your ethnic group's traditional music may not be pleasing to my ears, but I'm not going to argue that it sucks and you ought to start listening to real music, defined as whatever I happen to like. The food your parents taught you to make from the old country might not be to my taste, but I'll appreciate it (at least once or twice) as a window into another aspect of our rich human tapestry.

First of all, nobody is arguing that we have a right to keep firearms as part of a "culture". We're arguing that we have a right to keep firearms because the 2nd Amendment says we do. And if you want to scratch even deeper, the 2nd Amendment is there to codify/clarify a natural right that the founders considered self-evident. It has nothing to do with a "culture"; if anything, that's a card HIS side plays with regularity.

Second, people like this author most certainly do tell people that their religious rituals are silly. Not only that, they have increasingly pushed laws and social conventions that force religious people to choose between their beliefs and their ability to make a living or even participate in the public arena. He's just flat out lying when he claims otherwise.

I have utterly no clue what his point is about ethnic music or food from "the old country". Am I missing something?

Excellent response, OP. I forced myself to read the linked article because like others, I've always thought it helpful to keep up with what the other side is thinking. I now find myself less and less inclined to do so for reasons you alluded to in your open letter (condescension, arrogance, blatantly false arguments presented as fact, etc.). This article was no exception and if I have time later I might respond specifically to a couple of things that got my blood pressure up. Like you, I am becoming fed up with this stuff. Fed. Up.

My wife's family is from the northeast and are predominantly left-wing radical liberals. I'm on Facebook with most of them and vowed long ago to keep my mouth shut when I see their idiotic postings. I finally cracked last week after one of them attended that anti-gun march and posted a nonsense slogan about "School clothing is more regulated than guns". I tried to point out to this person that there were literally thousands of federal, state and local laws and regulations dealing with firearms - how can you possibly compare that to a simple dress code? The comeback was essentially that AR's were weapons of mass destruction and the laws didn't stop people from committing mass murder with them while clothes never killed anyone. I tried to explain that an AR was simply a semi-automatic rifle and essentially no different than any other semi-automatic weapon - did she want all of them banned and if not, what exactly did she want to see happen? She refused to answer and "defriended" me.

I don't know where this ends but unless the courts quit giving these people everything they want, something is going to give.