Stop citing the semantics, focus on the cause

[jwdominick]

Semantics should never be a focus to rebut their cause. Sure they misuse the terms, it helps them incite fear and scary imagery. The real focus needs to stay on topic, the 2A and how it alone is the Unalienable right that allows we the people to defend the rest. Against all enemies foreign and Domestic
Seems the people today cannot visualize a real need of the people to defend themselves from their own government. By the time the rules and regulations imposed on them do hit that tipping point and they can see that the government has gone too far, it will be too late as they would have already taken our guns.

[oneunder]

Semantics plays a huge part in it. When it comes time for the laws to be written, and more importantly, laws to be followed, semantics will be 100% of what is legal vs illegal.

A clip that holds 30 rounds because it is technically not 'detachable', might be legal, where-as a box magazine that holds 30 might be illegal. 100% semantics.

How can we have meaningful discussion with anyone, on any subject, if both parties involved are not at least somewhat knowledgeable on the subject? The people writing the bills are using (an oldy but a goody) terms like 'the thing that goes up'. WTH. Semantics is not about being pedantic and knit picky and being an ass. Semantics is part of being a well informed person trying to make a proper decision. Semantics is the law. People have gone to jail for life, or been set free on nothing more then semantics.

If you want to make me a possible felon because of something I already own, and you cannot figure out the difference between clip and magazine, or semi-automatic and fully-automatic, you are not fit to regulate on the subject.

[Hmac]

The semantics used by a politician in a press conference are going to have little or no relationship to the semantics and definitions used in the language of the final bill that gets submitted.

[jwdominick]

The big abusers of the terms is the media and the outspoken uninformed. You get a lady on the evening news saying "Glock" like its the most bad and scary thing ever, not once do they say it was a hand gun, or a 9mm or whatever the context just is out of hand. The term "semi-auto" and "assault rifle" and the others they lump together is obviously a sign of their ignorance on the topic, but the greater harm is the sheeple are just as guilty of being ill informed and all of the above term are synonymous with weapons of mass murder to them