Arguing about whether someone is using technically-correct terminology to name a weapon that is designed specifically for the purpose of killing with ease and at scale is specifically an attempt to force the conversation into angels-dancing-on-the-head-of-a-pin pedantry and irrelevancy, while deflecting attention from the really important fact that there are thousands of these weapons in the possession of thousands of people, it’s trivially easy to obtain one, and that any of those owning one could at any time decide that turning their fellow citizens into red mist is how they’ll deal with their personal rage and frustration – and that there is right now exactly jack squat being done, or that can be done.
That is what is important. Not the fucking words.
