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Gun Control Reform Activism

Girard442

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4. Gunsplaining is definitely a thing, but...

Reply to billh58 (Original post)

Thu Mar 22, 2018, 02:00 PM

Mar 2018

...if you've noticed the way pro-gun people argue, they basically just throw word salad out to keep the debate going in endless circles. Wouldn't matter if you could match them caliber-for-caliber and screw-for-screw. You'd end up discussing the fine points of, oh, I dunno, Siberian permafrost, or some such damn thing.

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The NRA and its allies use jargon to bully gun-control supporters [View all] billh58 Mar 2018 OP

Also: AR-15 vs. M16 (bs distinction) ExciteBike66 Mar 2018 #1

Gunsplaining at its finest n/t billh58 Mar 2018 #3

Rights come with responsibilites. Logicsplain that to a gunsplainer. Fred Sanders Mar 2018 #2

Gunsplaining is definitely a thing, but... Girard442 Mar 2018 #4

I got into that with a guy spewing NRA babbling points. I intentionally started talking about the brewens Mar 2018 #5

If he spews that acronym shit at you again, remind him that 'NRA' actually stands for Aristus Mar 2018 #9

Damn! Why didn't that come to me? "Look you dumb fuck, NRA stands for...LOL brewens Mar 2018 #14

Glad I could help. Aristus Mar 2018 #15

Cracks me up when gun-enthusiasts say we can't have an opinion on slugs penetrating heads of kids, Hoyt Mar 2018 #6

They have turned the Second Amendment billh58 Mar 2018 #7

In my opinion there are two types of guns SCantiGOP Mar 2018 #8

Any rational person billh58 Mar 2018 #11

Someone was here not long ago insisting that we had no right to judge gun-crazies Aristus Mar 2018 #10

That premise is being billh58 Mar 2018 #12

Exactly. Aristus Mar 2018 #13