I always thought the gun spec pedantry was funny. When talking about gun control policy, people quiz you in shit like clips, magazines, caliber, stocks, etc.
It's like if you were saying that cities need to be less car centric and focus more on public transit, and someone points to a transmission and says, "oh yeah? What's this?"
It's a product of American gun laws which used arbitrary visual cues to determine what an assault rifle was or wasn't. There's certainly some kernel of truth that if you're going to be banning things based on constituent parts, you probably aught to have basic familiarity with them. The law was incredibly stupid (a pistol grip makes the gun dangerous because you can shoot it from the hip! this is disproven by picking up a rifle with a pistol grip and trying to hold it at hip level to shoot) and the gun pedants have never recovered from it.
You get into pedantic discussions about this or that flimsy liberal panacea around cosmetic rifle features and rates of fire. The way gun laws are written today, you'd think we could resolve the whole problem by limiting our national arsenal exclusively to pump action shotguns and revolvers.
For all conservatives are absolute fascist shits, there's a real kernel of truth to the "economically insecure" argument they'll occasionally make. Gun violence and poverty are tightly correlated. Gun violence and toxic masculine culture are tightly correlated. Gun violence and high levels of stress are tightly correlated. A lot of this shit could be mitigated by simply reducing the economic anxieties of young people.
I always thought the gun spec pedantry was funny. When talking about gun control policy, people quiz you in shit like clips, magazines, caliber, stocks, etc.
It's like if you were saying that cities need to be less car centric and focus more on public transit, and someone points to a transmission and says, "oh yeah? What's this?"
Just so arbitrary and dumb. And, of course, smug
sorry but if you don't want your toddler being shot in the street then you BETTER be able to describe what a rolling block mechanism is
It's a product of American gun laws which used arbitrary visual cues to determine what an assault rifle was or wasn't. There's certainly some kernel of truth that if you're going to be banning things based on constituent parts, you probably aught to have basic familiarity with them. The law was incredibly stupid (a pistol grip makes the gun dangerous because you can shoot it from the hip! this is disproven by picking up a rifle with a pistol grip and trying to hold it at hip level to shoot) and the gun pedants have never recovered from it.
You get into pedantic discussions about this or that flimsy liberal panacea around cosmetic rifle features and rates of fire. The way gun laws are written today, you'd think we could resolve the whole problem by limiting our national arsenal exclusively to pump action shotguns and revolvers.
For all conservatives are absolute fascist shits, there's a real kernel of truth to the "economically insecure" argument they'll occasionally make. Gun violence and poverty are tightly correlated. Gun violence and toxic masculine culture are tightly correlated. Gun violence and high levels of stress are tightly correlated. A lot of this shit could be mitigated by simply reducing the economic anxieties of young people.
Just ask Tetsuya Yamagami.