{"id":78118,"date":"2018-03-07T12:57:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T17:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=78118"},"modified":"2018-03-07T13:04:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T18:04:57","slug":"gunsplaining-to-adam-weinstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78118","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Gunsplaining&#8221; to Adam Weinstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Weinstein complains in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/posteverything\/wp\/2018\/03\/06\/the-nra-and-its-allies-use-jargon-to-bully-gun-control-supporters\/?utm_term=.53ac15afe3f2\">Washington Post<\/a> that pro-2d Amendment folks are guilty of &#8220;gunsplaining&#8221; to the gun grabbers and we make it impossible to have a discussion on gun control.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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. Perhaps someone tweets about \u201cassault-style\u201d weapons, only to be told that there\u2019s no such thing. Maybe they\u2019re reprimanded that an AR-15 is neither an assault rifle nor \u201chigh-powered.\u201d Or they say something about \u201cmachine guns\u201d when they really mean semiautomatic rifles. Or they get sucked into an hours-long Facebook exchange over the difference between the terms clip and magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Has this happened to you? If so, you\u2019ve 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.<\/p>\n<p>It can feel infuriating, being forced to sweat the finest taxonomic distinctions between our nation\u2019s unlimited variety of lethal weapons. I know this feeling acutely, having covered gun violence critically for the better part of a decade and having just buried an old mentor, killed in the Parkland massacre.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, well, the problem is that the gun grabbers want to regulate firearms and they don&#8217;t really understand the things that they want to make illegal. The most egregious example is this exchange between Tucker Carlson and Congresswoman Caroline McCarthy who wants to regulate barrel shrouds for some reason;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9rGpykAX1fo\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>She ends up calling the barrel shroud &#8220;the thing in the back that goes up&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Now, to prevent teachers from being armed in the classroom, the gun fascists are complaining that the ammunition for the AR-style rifle leaves the barrel at three times the speed of the standard 9 millimeter ammunition. That&#8217;s true but at the range of a few feet, the difference is negligible. It doesn&#8217;t make the teacher more vulnerable. But, that&#8217;s the scare tactic employed in order to make it seem more rational to forbid the sale of black rifles.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gunsplaining, though, is always done in bad faith. Like mansplaining, it\u2019s less about adding to the discourse than smothering it \u2014 with self-appointed authority, and often the thinnest of connection to any real fact. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, then, the Left needs to get up to speed on the discussion. I hate explaining everyday that there is no &#8220;gun show loop hole&#8221;, that a bayonet lug doesn&#8217;t make a gun more dangerous. That there are already &#8220;universal background checks&#8221;. That gun registration has never prevented a crime.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[W]e need to take away the incentives for gunsplaining, for spurning conversation in favor of condescension. Can that happen anytime soon? I\u2019m not optimistic \u2014 not as long as the pro-gun camp continues to suppress debate with heavy rhetorical firepower, instead of just shooting straight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The main incentive for &#8220;gunspalining&#8221; is the total ignorance of the gun grabbers who don&#8217;t even know what it is that they want to seize from the law abiding public.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iJmFEv6BHM0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Adam Weinstein hates guns. Every time he tries to write about guns, he explains that he owns guns &#8211; it&#8217;s like a racist who explains that he can&#8217;t be racist because he has a black friend.<\/p>\n<p>If you want us to stop &#8220;gunsplaining&#8221;, know what is that you want to jerk out of my hands. Quit trying to outsmart yourself. Well, unless you don&#8217;t want to tell us what it is you&#8217;re trying to do.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, Weinstein is the chief editor at Task &#038; Purpose &#8211; stop sending me links to that dumpster fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Weinstein complains in the Washington Post that pro-2d Amendment folks are guilty of &#8220;gunsplaining&#8221; to &hellip; <a title=\"&#8220;Gunsplaining&#8221; to Adam Weinstein\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78118\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Gunsplaining&#8221; to Adam Weinstein<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-grabbing-fascists","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}