If people are cringing because those with a real, honest desire to solve the problem of people dying in droves don't know what "minute of pie plate" means, then let me be what I can only hope is not the first to say #### those people.
Again, I'm all for facts and information, provided that those facts and that information are instrumental to finding a better solution to the problem (without allowing the perfect to be the enemy of the good). The understanding of the difference between an automatic and a semi automatic rifle seems like important information, as does a good grasp on magazine limits. But there's a bunch of meaningless crap flying around that serves only to effectively try to exclude those people who want a solution from the conversation because they aren't gun nuts... ahem, "firearm enthusiasts". That's, again, idiotic.
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