Gunsplaining

GURPS

GURPS

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A pair of left-leaning reporters complained in an op-ed and on social media that gun-rights activists are wrong to demand that they learn gun terminology before opining on gun policy.

Writing for the Washington Post this week, journalist Adam Weinstein complained that "The NRA and its allies use jargon to bully gun-control supporters."

"While debating the merits of various gun-control proposals, Second Amendment enthusiasts often diminish, or outright dismiss their views if they use imprecise firearms terminology," Weinstein wrote.

"Perhaps someone tweets about ‘assault-style' weapons, only to be told that there's no such thing," he continued. "Maybe they're reprimanded that an AR-15 is neither an assault rifle nor ‘high-powered.' Or they say something about ‘machine guns' when they really mean semiautomatic rifles."


Reporters Complain NRA Is ‘Gunsplaining,’ ‘Bullying’ by Insisting They Use Correct Terminology
 
vraiblonde

vraiblonde

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The Left is fairly used to running their mouths without knowing what they're talking about.

Best Twitter response:

[TWITTER]https://twitter.com/BlanksSlate/status/971119827837431809[/TWITTER]
 
Hijinx

Hijinx

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vraiblonde said:
The Left is fairly used to running their mouths without knowing what they're talking about.

Best Twitter response:

[TWITTER]https://twitter.com/BlanksSlate/status/971119827837431809[/TWITTER]
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Well it's like this. The leftist journalists do not worry about being correct in the terminology of firearms, because they want anything that shoots a bullet taken out of the hands of John Q, Public. Thay can Bullsh1t about gun control but what they mean is banishment and confiscation.
 
GURPS

GURPS

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If You’re Trying to Ban Guns, the Least You Could Do Is Learn the Basics

“If you don’t know what the ‘AR’ in AR-15 stands for, you don’t get to talk,” explains the sarcastic subhead on the piece. If you don’t know what the “AR” in AR-15 stands for, you still get to talk. But if you want to ban or confiscate AR-15s and you haven’t taken the time to learn what the “AR” stands for, then gun owners have every right to call you out.

Weinstein—and he’s far from alone—bemoans the unfairness of gun controllers “being forced to sweat the finest taxonomic distinctions between our nation’s unlimited variety of lethal weapons.” This statement is illustrative of the emotionalism and hyperbole of the debate (the notion that there’s an “unlimited variety” of firearms is absurd). But at the same time, it’s an exaggeration of Second Amendment advocates’ expectations.

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For example, Weinstein takes Fox News personality Tomi Lahren to task for failing to mention that the family of Eugene Stoner, the AR-15’s designer and champion, claimed in 2016 that Stoner would be “‘horrified and sickened’ to see his military rifle pattern become so common in civilian households and school shootings.” You’ll notice the conflation.

Of course Stoner would be horrified that his gun was used in school shootings. But Weinstein fails to note that there’s no evidence on the record of Stoner having been “horrified and sickened” by the notion of civilians owning his gun. Since he had been selling prototype AR-15s to civilians a decade before his military model was adopted by the United States, we have no reason to believe he would be.
 
Merlin99

Merlin99

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You'd think a couple of reporters would be familiar with the idea "words mean something", and that specific words mean specific things.
 
glhs837

glhs837

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Merlin99 said:
You'd think a couple of reporters would be familiar with the idea "words mean something", and that specific words mean specific things.
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But of course they are. And they know that controlling the words means controlling the debate. This isnt ignorance.
 
Merlin99

Merlin99

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glhs837 said:
But of course they are. And they know that controlling the words means controlling the debate. This isnt ignorance.
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Except there isn't really a debate, there are two mutually exclusive sides. It's more how the next generation is going to be educated, in either fear and loathing of firearms or in Americas traditional acceptance of them.
 
willie

willie

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I have an acquaintance that seriously believes it means automatic and that armalite is the new light weight bullet proof vest.
 
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