"Gun Safety" rather than "Gun Control"?

[LymphocyteLover]

If a simple change in terminology changes our gun politics, great. I'm skeptical but it can't hurt.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/27/opinion/sunday/gun-control-safety.html

[Scrivener7]

1. That's actually an excellent idea. The terminology does matter. And that is a better phrase.

My first impulse was to think, "Oh, FFS, let's stop coddling the gun humpers." But terminology is one of the areas that we Democrats do not excel in, and we tend to discount its immense importance.

Think pro life vs. anti abortion. The words matter.

We should do this. We should refer to it as gun safety instead of gun control.

[mitch96]

2. Agree... like Automobile safety... training, license, insurance etc. nt

[keithbvadu2]

3. The NRA used to be for sportsmen, hunters and gun safety.

The NRA used to be for sportsmen, hunters and gun safety.

Now it has become an industry owned shill for the sale of more guns and the enrichment of its leaders.

[rickyhall]

9. I took a gun safety course from NRA for a merit badge in Boy Scouts.

That used to be their thing 50 years ago.

[hunter]

4. Give the gun fetishists an inch and they'll take a mile.

Most people don't care enough about guns to bother owning one.

Many people have a gun or two safely locked away for hunting and other utilitarian purposes. That's not a problem.

Then there is GUN LOVE, with too many dangerous people feeding off that negative energy, everyone from fourteen year old gangsters to mass murdering psychopaths. This is the gun culture that needs to die.

The gun industry doesn't want that to happen. It's the gun fetishists who buy most of the guns. They can go to hell.

[Wounded Bear]

5. Much like bars and their drunks, gun sellers need their addicts...

or like gamers who have to have the latest incarnation, etc etc etc.

We are a society of addicts. We just pick our addictions.

[LymphocyteLover]

6. Agree! I just wish they didn't have so much political power

it's so messed up

[SYFROYH]

7. I agree, but it can't just be superficial.

Specifically, "gun safety" advocates have to stop with selective gun ban proposals is they want to be taken seriously.

I will say that there have been good efforts with Red Flag laws, the Manchin-Toomey background check proposal, and safe-storage proposals (although not all) that really are about gun safety.

[xmas74]

8. Moms Demand Action changed it a few years back

Gun control is a boogeyman, especially when approaching Red State politicians. It's much harder for them to state they're against any kind of safety.

[LymphocyteLover]

10. Great! Thanks for the news