walstien wrote:XDM45 wrote:Slayer_MN1 wrote:I think you mean if suppressors were legal.. only people that describe magazines as clips call suppressors silencers
Good call. The correct term is suppressor and I don't call magazines clips. I'll edit the post. It's important to use the correct terminology.
No, its not important to use the right terrminology.
Its important to not be condescending or rude to folks new to our sport. Its important to be helpful and pleasant, even tollerant of those with less experience handling firearms, and to help them learn, rather than shaming them.
Its important to try to be supportive of businesses and folks who more commonly stand with us rather than against us.
Its important to unite rather than divide. We have enough folks out there who don't believe we should have any firearms at all, we certainly don't need any more members of OUR community hacking on one another.
Its important to be nice to one of the THOUSANDS of people who have recently taken interest in our sport. Try to be patient when they screw up. Keep it safe, but no need to chastise and embarrass a newbie. Make them feel unwelcome and they will walk away unwilling to support us.
If you haven't made a mistake in your life, then good for you. Try your best to tollerate being on this planet with the rest of us imperfect slobs.
Today I'll go to the range and try to give some helpful pointers to someone who looks lost. I'll bring my AR-15 with extra ammo and when someone looks at it funny I'll invite them to shoot it... as much as they want. I'll be nice to a woman or a child who looks intimidated by all the noise and comfort them by making a joke or offering a .22 for them to shoot. If I see someone being unsafe I'll immidiatly correct their action and then engage them in discussion to try to take the sting out of being publicly corrected.
Remember Dalton's rule from Roadhouse - "Be nice".
I think you, Brad and I are more alike than not. I've brought extra ammo, let people used my guns, acted as an RSO which everyone is when on the range, etc. Nope, I won't look down at someone for saying "clip" when it's a magazine, but I'll educate them. Words have power, meaning, if the proposed bills passed into law and instead of (10 round magazines) being banned, they used "10 ball gum ball machines", guess which one is banned?
Nuances matter. Proper terminology matters. No, that doesn't mean you need to be rude about it, but educating people is important. I always try and educate people (nicely) because ignorance is forgivable, but stupidity is not. Ignorance means you don't know, or even that you don't know that you should know something in the first place and don't. Stupidity is you know and don't care, so you proceed counter to the knowledge anyway.
Believe me, I'm an expert at figuring things out when people use incorrect terminology. I work in the IT field and anyone who does can do the same thing. "I was PPPing into my router download space to synch up the TCP to the download file in my email. Can you help me?????" Yeah. Clearly, it doesn't make since, it's incorrect, but the basic deal is they are having an email issue, so I start there. Incorrect terms or incorrectly used terms cause confusion and waste time, money and other valuable resources. There's a difference between upload and download, both are transferring data, but it's a completely different direction. There's a difference between clip and magazine, both hold ammo, but in a completely different way.
