Andrea Junker 
I still think it’s backwards that mass shooters owning assault weapons is considered a right while their victims’ healthcare is considered a privilege.
LevkaWhat's an "assault weapon"? Not a rhetorical question.
Wulfy—Speaker to the machinesIn the parlance of the gun debate
and bear in mind that includes people who are gun experts as well as not, an "assault rifle" is one which allows the user to fire multiple shots at multiple targets before targets have time to react.
Otherwise, you get into inane arguments about magazine capacity, range, reload mechanism, demons in the end of the barrel...that kind of inane gaslighting.
Words have meanings.
An assault rifle , by definition, has a selector switch that can select for full automatic. If a weapon cannot fire full automatic it is not an assault rifle. It's something else.
I have a 12 Gauge pump action shotgun which allows the user to fire multiple shots at multiple targets before targets have time to react. It's not an assault rifle. It's a much different device.
I've never shot anyone with it. I never needed to. I popped a trunk lid once and asked if they *wanted* trouble. That was enough. They didn't.
I didn't even have to brandish it. They didn't know what was in there. Just the possibility was sufficient. That's the power of firearms.
Aaah....and you went there...
The demons at the end of the barrel are only relevant in cases where holy emperor decreed heretics as the valid targets only.
(The gaslighting bit of my comment)
That's not gaslighting. That's the truth of the matter. Gaslight, by definition, means a very specific form of lying. I didn't lie at al. I told the truth. Ergo, it's not gaslighting.
Accusing me of something I didn't do, on the other hand, *is* a lie. Stop lying about me. Stop lying about guns. Stop lying about the English language. Words really do have meanings.
Cat West@LevZadov @n_dimension @Strandjunker Oh honey, I hope you are being paid well to come on here and troll in a way that someone thinks will stop people from speaking against gun ownership of assault weapons. Pull out that little dictionary, the one next to your little dick, and lecture us all one more time.
@[email protected] @n_dimension @Strandjunker
I do not tolerate ad hominem attacks in my timeline. This person is blocked.
@LevZadov @n_dimension @Strandjunker So, you were only pretending to be incredibly stupid so you could split hairs on definitions of weapons of war in the hands of civilians!