Snowflake-Alert!!! Fox News laments that term "assault weapon" is offensive to 2A-advocates.

[DetlefK]

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Fun Fact: The term "assault weapon" was invented by gun-manufacturers and gun-enthusiasts as simply a technical term to describe a certain class of military rifles. First it described automatic rifles only, later both automatic and semi-automatic.

https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2013/02/06/what-right-wing-media-wont-tell-you-about-assau/192553

[DBoon]

1. I prefer to call them "machines of death"

and I don't care who is offended

[DetlefK]

3. Off-topic:

"Machine of Death" is a collection of short-stories all based on the same premise: There is a machine that can predict when and how you will die.

Each short-story explores in a different way what society would be like if such a machine existed and how people would react to that knowledge.

[DBoon]

9. guess I will have to come up with some other name

[riversedge]

2. good reason to continue to use the term then.

[Blues Heron]

4. Gun hobbyists are a thin-skinned bunch in general

They know public indulgence of their little hobby is wearing thinner with each and every mass shooting.

[hack89]

5. It's a good a term as any

considering it is enshrined in law - arguing about its origins seems a moot point to me.

[C_U_L8R]

6. They sure aren't for hunting chipmunks.

Lethal military grade weapons designed exclusively for killing people

[smirkymonkey]

7. Fuck the pathetic little snowflakes!

It's high time they start getting comfortable being offended, because this is nothing.

[NewJeffCT]

8. How about small penis overcompensation rifles then?

instead of assault rifles?

[struggle4progress]

10. "The poor misunderstood guns! Won't anyone think of the poor guns?"

[Vinca]

11. Okay. How about "weapons of death" instead?