A How-To Guide On Dealing With A ‘Gunsplainer’

[linuxman]

16. Your sex makes literally no difference to me regarding a debate.

My "contribution" is pointing out that most of the anti gunners on this site are more worried about virtue signaling and shaming people than actually bothering to listen, learn something, or have anything close to a dialogue.

There's a reason half the anti gun posts around here degenerate into a backslapping circle jerk, waxing on about boiling guns at a foundry, rather than actually proposing something realistic and effective.

As far as arguing minutiae about guns, I think I have a valid point. If I was trying to shame someone over not knowing the difference in chromoly steel barrels vs cold hammer forged chrome lined, you'd have a point. Asking people to understand the difference in semiautomatic and full auto, or to understand that 5.56 isn't a large caliber, manstomping, grizzly slaying round, rather than a smaller, weaker one than virtually every round fired at whitetail deer, or pointing out that a bolt action rifle isn't some sort of super assassin tool due to a pistol grip isn't being nitpicky. It's just asking for a basic level of intellectual curiosity and honesty.

Would you be able to take someone seriously if you were talking climate change, but they kept conflating seasonal temperature drops with the idea that it "proved" global warming wasn't happening? Of course not. You might try to explain the difference to them, but if they threw it back in your face as "weathersplaining", you might start to lose patience.

I get what you're saying, but I think most of the attempts to clarify information about guns here is done in good faith.