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WashPost: Facts ‘Bully Gun-Control Supporters’
newsbusters.org ^ | 3/7/2018 | Matt Philbin

Posted on 03/07/2018 6:40:21 AM PST by rktman

And now, from the same people who see a need for 60 different gender options on Facebook, a complaint about gun defenders splitting hairs over word choice.

“While debating the merits of various gun control proposals, Second Amendment enthusiasts often diminish, or outright dismiss their views if they use imprecise firearms terminology,” writes Adam Weinstein in The Washington Post.

Has this happened to you? If so, you’ve been gunsplained: harangued with the pedantry of the more-credible-than-thou firearms owner, admonished that your inferior knowledge of guns and their nomenclature puts an asterisk next to your opinion on gun control.

Think of it as the counterpart to asterisk attached to everyone who dares contradict the pronouncements of the Parkland kids without having been in a similar situation. Creates a nice balance, don’t you think? Anyway, we all know gun controllers' tactics are unimpeachable. “Gunsplaining, though, is always done in bad faith,” asserts Weinstein.

“It can feel infuriating,” Weinstein goes on, “being forced to sweat the finest taxonomic distinctions between our nation’s unlimited variety of lethal weapons.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2a; antigunners; banglist; bullies
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To: rktman
US Senate Candidate Nick Freitas Dismantles the Left in Defense of the Second Amendment
21 posted on 03/07/2018 7:18:35 AM PST by Delta 21 (Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
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To: rktman
"Has this happened to you? If so, you’ve been gunsplained" Little Richard
MY HEAVENS!!!!
22 posted on 03/07/2018 7:19:27 AM PST by jurroppi1 (The Left doesnÂ’t have ideas, it has cliches. H/T Flick Lives)
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To: Pollster1

In the 90s the gun grabbers could still find duck hunters who they could put in front of a camera saying, “No one needs...”. Gun owners have come a long way. They can no longer find a cleavage pane monastic gun owners. Skeet shooters now know if they fail to stand with other gun owners they, too, will end up disarmed. Now that the dullest gun owner has had 20 years to ponder it we all know “FMCDH” is the ONLY answer to give gun grabbers no matter what firearms you chose to own.


23 posted on 03/07/2018 7:20:30 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
...few people can envision a practical use for these weapons.”

Well, of course, if you believe the second amendment guarantees a right to go hunting. Or something.

24 posted on 03/07/2018 7:28:10 AM PST by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: MileHi

Hunting bulls eyes at the range perhaps. ;-)


25 posted on 03/07/2018 8:25:39 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: TangoLimaSierra
Especially if it has that shoulder thing that goes up.That "thing" scares the crap out of me. We should ban it. (wasn't that about the barrel shroud?)
26 posted on 03/07/2018 8:31:11 AM PST by paulcissa (Democrats want you unarmed so they can kill you.)
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To: rktman

I’m still looking for the gun part that is “the thing in the back that goes up”.


27 posted on 03/07/2018 8:32:51 AM PST by Lockbar (What would Vlad The Impaler do?)
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To: Lockbar

Call the NRA for accessories like that. They just give them away when you purchase an AR-15 at your local NRA gun retail outlet. Face palm!


28 posted on 03/07/2018 8:34:42 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: MileHi; Ruy Dias de Bivar

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...few people can envision a practical use for these weapons...
>

...Until THEY too are rounded up for the box-cars, re-education camps or...

Unfort., we’ve make it so the STUPID no longer suffer themselves.


29 posted on 03/07/2018 8:36:30 AM PST by i_robot73 (One could not count the number of *solutions*, if only govt followed\enforced the Constitution.)
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To: MileHi
"Well, of course, if you believe the second amendment guarantees a right to go hunting. Or something."

Actually, it does. The first clause (militias) does not limit the second clause....it merely clarifies why the second clause is of interest to the federal government.

I once took the time to look up the "Bills of Rights" of the independent nations that became the United States with the ratification of the Constitution.

IIRC, the Connecticut national RKBA went thusly...."every citizen has the right to arms for defense of himself (self defense), his own state (state militia), and the taking of game (hunting)."

30 posted on 03/07/2018 8:44:41 AM PST by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
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To: Wonder Warthog
Actually, it does. The first clause (militias) does not limit the second clause....it merely clarifies why the second clause is of interest to the federal government.

I don't disagree. And still, the primary purpose is defense against tyranny.

31 posted on 03/07/2018 9:09:39 AM PST by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: rktman

Yeah - we’re bullies - reminds me of the time a local accosted me on a pier to tell me how terrifying it was to see a gun on my hip - after about 10 minutes of “discussion”, I told him if I was that damn scary, we wouldn’t be having the conversation - he didn’t know how to reply so I bid him good day and left.


32 posted on 03/07/2018 9:19:03 AM PST by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
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To: rktman

IOW, once again, if the facts contradict the narrative, then the facts lie.


33 posted on 03/07/2018 9:26:55 AM PST by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: trebb

Well possibly “intimidaters” at the least. ;-)


34 posted on 03/07/2018 9:27:21 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

Yep - don’t even have to say, “Boo!”, to get them to start twitching in terror....


35 posted on 03/07/2018 9:34:20 AM PST by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
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To: rktman

Good luck with that
Panty waists


36 posted on 03/07/2018 9:38:45 AM PST by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: rktman

Is Matt Philbin having a hissy fit?

5.56mm


37 posted on 03/07/2018 9:41:40 AM PST by M Kehoe
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To: rktman

Without Private Citizens owning and using the Weapons of War in the late 1700’s, these Morons wouldn’t have a First Amendment Right of a Free Press to shield them as British Subjects.


38 posted on 03/07/2018 9:42:55 AM PST by Kickass Conservative ( An Armed Society is a Polite Society. An Unarmed Society is North Korea.)
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To: rktman

If they keep pushing they’re going the get belt-fed bullying.


39 posted on 03/07/2018 9:46:40 AM PST by The Toll
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To: The Toll

Well that’s just crazy. EVERYBODY knows you “can’t” own machine guns. /s


40 posted on 03/07/2018 9:48:22 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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