Comment on NY bill would require a criminal history background check for the purchase of a 3D printer
PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 1 year agoThat’s all fair, but it remains the most widely accepted term for the issue, complete with its own Wikipedia page.
leaves the door open for gun nuts to say “lol, there is no gun show loophole, see you don’t even know what you’re talking about”
It doesn’t matter what it’s called, they’ll continue to oppose addressing it because their strategy is to only take, never give.
Fondots@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That doesn’t mean we need to make it easy for them to oppose it. Don’t give them a stupid way to dismiss the conversation before it even gets off the ground, make them actually defend their position that private sales don’t
IMO, getting stuck calling it the gun show loophole when there are better things to call it because that’s what everyone has always called it has the same kind of energy as conservative assholes who refuse to learn a person’s pronouns or old people who never bothered to scrub things like “colored” or “oriental” from their vocabulary. Language can, does, and should change with the times, and we need to keep up with it.
PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Sounds like bikeshedding to me.
Fondots@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Them getting caught up on you calling it the gun show loophole is bikeshedding, and you can solve it by the simple action of calling it something else.
PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Again, there is no possible combination of words that will make the pro-gun community support its closure and you’re doing them a massive favor by implying they have a role in the conversation at all.
With Google searches for “private sale loophole” returning results for “gun show loophole” (as well as information about the origin of the term), it could just as easily be argued that you’re muddying the waters for semantics.
So I’ll just keep using whatever phrase gets my point across and you can use whatever words you want in the gun-control comments you don’t seem to be making, to placate people who don’t seem to exist, so they don’t use a talking point that’s trivial to address.