A couple of questions regarding the gun debate.

[RandySF]

Why do gun nuts pile on the moment you get the slightest technical fact wrong about guns, or simply use the wrong word? I was flamed on Twitter after I mentioned the bumpstock that turned the Las Vegas shooter's AR-15 into an automatic. The wingnuts predictably jumped and argued the technicality that it was still not at automatic. WHO GIVES A SHIT AT 800 ROUNDS PER MINUTE?

[Not Ruth]

1. It is apples and oranges

Not everyone can distinguish between apples and oranges, they do both grow on trees.

[Hoyt]

2. The nomenclature game is their defense. They'll jump all over someone for confusing a clip

with a magazine, although they have the same function-- to feed bullets into the chamber so the gun nut can fire his crappy gun.

They act like the non-gun-humper can't understand the massacre of little children unless they are a gun addict.

The nomenclature game makes them feel superior because they think guns are the essence of life.

The bump stock is a mechanism for circumventing the intent of laws restricting automatic weapons. They are too stupid and addicted to guns to get it.

Screw them.

[canetoad]

3. It's a device

Used to invalidate your arguments against guns.

[VOX]

4. Theyre males, and you challenge their power by not speaking the holy nomenclature.

I’m being pretty serious here. They love their weapons so much, and have invested so much energy, money and time into them, it’s like calling someone’s child ‘strange,’ and the parent immediately corrects you with, ‘No, he’s actually on the autism spectrum.’ (Bad example, I know, but I’m running on about two hours sleep.)