Comment on NY bill would require a criminal history background check for the purchase of a 3D printer

• 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.

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  • Fondots@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s not about changing the gun nuts’ minds, like you said, it’s not going to happen, but there’s a whole lot of people out there without strong feelings one way or another, who don’t know about what laws are out there, and who are potentially open to being persuaded to your way of thinking, and if you want to convince them of your position, you don’t want to give your opposition an easy opportunity to derail the conversation and make it look like you don’t know what you’re talking about and they do.

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    • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Fine. I’ll never call it a gun show loophole again. Anything to stop this tedious discussion of semantics for a situation I’ve never found myself in.

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