If we let them control the vocabulary, we may as well give up right now.
I for one refuse to do so. I had a conversation with a friend who is a republican last night. She remarked to me that “nobody needs an assault weapon”. I asked her, “what is an assault weapon?”. She described an automatic weapon and was astounded when I explained that such weapons have been so tightly regulated since 1934, that there are very, very few in the hands of the public. I then defined a semi-automatic, and she remarked that her WW2 vet father’s target pistol would come under that definition.
She now gets it. We must not, under any circumstances, allow the leftists to define our vocabulary and the terms to define the freedoms we champion.
I had a similar experience with my mother. She was saying semi automatic weapons should be banned, nobody needs one of those things. I said to her that dad had about 10 of them). She looked at me like I was insane. I said what do you think he hunted with all those years.