It’s compromising on their terms. Getting into the semantics of it is just what the Liberal doctor has ordered for a compromise with the Left. Any compromise with them is a win for them.
Call ‘em guns, or rifles, and let THEM float all the semantics they want. Don’t play with them as they will always play by their rules, which they usually make up as they go along to keep them in the winners seat. Think Chameleons.
The best thing to do with the Left is to ignore them, let them spew all the absolute nonsense they normally spew, and make damned certain none of them ever gets elected to leadership as we unfortunately have now.
The job # one is to clean out the Leftist garbage, the enemy within the current political party of Conservative traditional choice, and then to get the Leftist butts the ‘H’ out of positions of “power”, clean their “departments” out of the Executive, eliminate the bureaucracies that support them, and keep them out.
The unfortunate political reality in this country is that most of our neighbors want their information served up to them in soundbites and catch-phrases. “Assault weapon” was a brilliant piece of political marketing. It describes nothing and anything. (Sounds like Obama, now that I think of it!) It can be twisted to mean any gun the Left finds frightening. Whether we like it or not, we need to think like marketeers.