Boulder - Gun rights advocates planning huge high capacity magazine giveaway in Colorado

[maxsolomon]

37. OK, you win. i won't say crazy when referring to schizophrenics who murder masses of people.

the topic of this thread is not 'stigmatizing' the mentally ill by calling them crazy (the mentally ill people i see every day on the streets of seattle do a good job of that already). it's about distributing high-capacity magazines for free just to poke a finger in the eye of people who sincerely believe they're damaging american society.

the debate on firearms here is constantly derailed by langauge policing. if i call high-capacity magazines "clips", someone jumps down my throat. if i call a military-styled semi-automatic rifle that accepts those clips an "assault" weapon, someone jumps down my throat.

so much of our political debate gets derailed by insisting on precise terminology. i get the reason, and i recognize that you think this is vital to mental health advocacy, but at a certain point it approaches minutae.