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Where did that come from? Did you read the thread?So while at it, why not just give up your tactical stuff to appease the antis and go hunt with a muzzleloader?
Do some reading. It's not about changing the minds of the antis. It is about making it more difficult for their arguments to be pushed on the fence sitters. They want to convince the non-gun owners that our modern weapons are bad. Giving them a badass name only makes that easier for the antis to do.I think you could re name it "flower" gun or "marshmellow" gun or "rainbow" gun and the anti's would still want to ban it. It's about power, we have it, they want it.
Like it or not, words matter. "Assault" has been the bane of our cause, and the antis have loved that we created that term. It is a word game, and that is why the media calls a glock an "assault weapon". The antis want to convince the public that we need to get these "dangerous weapons" off of the streets. They will lump as much into that catagory as possible.
Us lumping all of our modern weapons into a catagory for them and then giving it a kind of scary title is going to end badly for us. The antis took our modern rifles and standard capacity magazines away from us for 10 years! They played a word game to do it. We need to play a word game back. "Assault weapon ban" doesn't look as bad on a politician's record as "Modern weapon ban".
The antis manipulate terminology to make us look bad. Let's return the favor.