• axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Does anyone remember the huge hullabaloo about how "assault rifle" isn't a real term? What was that even about?

    • Sandinband
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      3 years ago

      Their thinking was that if you didn't know the names of guns then you couldn't really argue against them because of your lack of knowledge. This obviously doesn't apply to vaccinations, immigration, or universal healthcare

    • RamrodBaguette [comrade/them, he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Damn, I wonder what term could specifically refer to a rifle with an intermediate cartridge and controllable automatic firing/suppression? Guess we’ll never know.

    • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Libs wanted to ban "assault weapons" (assault rifles are already illegal), which is a certain aesthetic guns can have, and banning it is really dumb.

      The right rightfully pointed out that it was dumb.

      There more substantial argument where libs have a little more ground is on the issue of background checks