#predditors

i thought it would be fun to follow shitty csr mods and reblog some positivity for those cars but instead it was just a relentless slog of aggressive mean spiritedness even realizing they get off on all of us being outraged, i still don't know how they have the energy to be so mean all day long i thought maybe if i just hit 'remove reblogs' it would help but i still knew they were there, it's not worth bringing that kind of energy into my life

The First "Assault Weapon": Banning Guns Based on "Style" Rather than Function this is a condescendingly reductive take still rooted in **technical accuracy** that raises an important point - the category of 'assault weapon' was created based on widespread confusion dating back to 89 abt whether 'military style' weapons are proper 'machine guns' like the ak47 - but then completely ignores all other context around the issue such as, why the public was upset about 'assault weapons' in 1989, why they are today, that the reason is the same thirty years later, that this **fake** category of weapons continues to be the weapon of choice in the mass shootings that keep happening here in the us where there is a huge supply of and easy access to such weapons, but not elsewhere where such weapons are far more heavily restricted and ofc it frames the issue in boilerplate conservative rhetoric about **fairness**, as though the real victims year after year were the poor gun owners being unfairly denied access to their favorite toys just so the nanny state big government can save a few lives here and there and it explicitly whinges abt the media being to blame for 'continuing to misrepresent the issue', and claims that reduced support for an assault weapon ban since 89 is because of the triumph of reason and facts over ignorance and mob mentality and that the millions and milliona of dollars spent by the nra in washington each year is just an educational campaign to raise awareness - and that the money goes to gop politicians who persistently respond to a succession of national tragedies with 'thoughts and prayers' but then roadblock any kind of meaningful progress on gun control year in year out, is just a wierd coincidence the article even mentions but complerely ignores WHY semi-auto rifles styled after proper 'machine guns' are the weapon of choice for mass shooters - because actual machine guns //are illegal for private ownership here//, so ppl get the next best thing. meanwhile, if these clowns really wanted to be **reasonable**, their checkmate argument - that an ar15 is functionally just a glock with a lot of cool attachments - would support banning handguns too, not **never banning anything** remember, guns don't kill people, the invisible hand of the free market does

rabid conservatives looking for a rhetorical gotcha that will let them dismiss all arguments in favor of reasonable gun control on a technicality - well TECHNICALLY assault weapons don't actually exist bc nobody who is in the industry actually calls them that, so let the dumb cucks ban a fake category and nothing will happen and i can feel real proud of myself between now and the next time seventeen children are murdered by someone using something that is colloqually, but not ABSOLUTELY LITERALLY IN THE LEGAL SENSE known as an 'assault weapon' literallly everyone else in the entire fucking world - you guys know we just mean machine guns, right?

which is good because it soothed me not to argue with someone on reddit who claimed that 14-year-olds are more attractive than 18-year-olds