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In reply to the discussion: Why is it that the main objection concerning gun control [View all]Recursion
(56,582 posts)1: Doing this well is much harder than proponents think, and the last time we did it we didn't do it anywhere close to well
2: Most gun control proponents are fundamentally mistaken about how guns work and are concentrating on aspects of guns that don't matter (for example by banning "assault weapons": we keep bringing up the definition because the definition is completely stupid and there's not a definition that does what you want short of bans that are way too broad to even have a chance politically)
You're convinced opponents are hung up on terminology; we keep bringing it up because there's a fundamental category error at the heart of the AWB.
You don't know every gun ever made? You're too stupid to advocate gun control.
No, but personally when I advocate for something I don't like to do it from a position of ignorance; that's how Republicans operate. I personally don't have a problem with somebody supporting an AWB without knowing what it does, but I get really tired of being called crazy for not supporting the AWB by people who have no idea what it does.