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In reply to the discussion: You must remember: What is most important about gun control [View all]Paladin
(28,246 posts)36. Lose The Condescension.
I've got fifty years of firearms handling under my belt. I've shot everything from .22 short rimfires to .375 H&H safari rifles, and all manner of pistols (including the powerful but hilarious-looking Remington XP-100). In my hunting days, I shot in excess of 100 deer. I have fired every sort of firearm, machine guns included. In my earlier, uninformed days, I was a letters-to-the-editor-writing Gun Enthusiast, a phase of my life I'm thankful I grew out of. I know the difference between a magazine and a clip, among many other things about firearms, and despite my background, I am an ardent supporter of gun control. And I know that a perfect understanding of technical terminology is not required to formulate an effective gun control argument, particularly on a talk site such as DU. Understood?
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What I think you need to understand, my friend, is that correct terminology and definitions are key in
SayWut
Jan 2013
#4
Well, insult aside, from what I've been reading here lately, I might as well go to my
SayWut
Jan 2013
#9
You mean instead of "thingie that holds lots o'bullets," call it "that mag thingie"? nt
Honeycombe8
Jan 2013
#5
Yes... And They Apparently Don't Understand That There Has Been Gun Control For Many Decades Now...
WillyT
Jan 2013
#7
You can talk about gun control in whatever terms you want, but if you want to write
petronius
Jan 2013
#8
and that is why our elected legislators have knowledgeable staffs and the committees to which
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#22
We are not legislators (mostly), but we are discussing what we think policy ought to look like
petronius
Jan 2013
#34
Well, I probably should know more about many of the finer points on this administration's
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#35
Well of course the reason for this is that if the folks discussing gun control on DU don't
Squinch
Jan 2013
#10
The General Public Is Never Going to Have An Encyclopedic Understanding of Firearm Tech
Yavin4
Jan 2013
#25
The knowledge is needed by those trying to legislate more than the public in general
ProgressiveProfessor
Jan 2013
#33