what are what are some misconceptions about assault rifles because i think like every
every time i think uh i don't know if democrats get talking on this issue that i just feel like
there's so much misinformation out there and i feel like a lot of people who aren't familiar
with guns think that more more things like more guns are assault rifles than there really are
and i think well don't know about attachments it's just like it seems like
a lot to know well assault rifle uh so i think i assume you're talking about assault weapon
so assault rifle has a very specific definition and that's a um it's a rifle of intermediate
caliber with a selective fire capability so that's like uh you know your overseas like
full auto like army military weapons right um you can have assault rifles here but you have to have
special tax stamps and special background checks and like it costs a lot of money
most of the time what they're talking about is assault weapon uh which is a made-up fairy
tale word that politicians use to make things sound scary like my ar-15 sounds scary um but in
reality it's uh you know assault rifle ar doesn't stand for assault rifle stands for armalite rifle
that's a common misconception people think an ar-15 is an assault rifle but it's actually not
um yeah uh it's a sporting rifle like mine i can't really see it from this angle but i use
mine for you know competition for example so um it's a civilian rifle that's we are the biggest
misconception though besides like obviously the terminology is that uh they always want to grab
the ar-15s because there's they're scary sounding right but in reality rifles of all types account
for a very small portion of gun deaths in fact the vast majority of gun deaths are caused by handguns
so why would you even go for the ones that cause so few deaths per year right uh i mean
it's in the hundreds it's very very low like the criminals aren't buying a thousand dollar
you know ar-15s and using it in crime they're stealing cheap handguns and using it you know
so um that's the prob probably the biggest thing is that so many people falsely believe
that ar-15s are killing thousands of americans each year and it's an epidemic of ar-15 violence
uh because that's what you would think if you didn't know anything if you didn't know any better
you know that's why we have these gun advocacy groups um and uh the best ones right now are
the firearms policy coalition the fpc and gun owners of america goa they are both very very
good groups that help educate the public and they also file lawsuits against districts that
and states that make unconstitutional gun laws and are actually actively out there fighting
against uh some of these unconstitutional gun laws that are coming through and they've been
successful so if you want to support if you want to learn more i would definitely go to
either the firearms policy coalition website they have a lot of really good resources for learning
about the common misconceptions uh and the gun owners of america also a really great organization
and these have kind of overtaken the nra because as we all know the nra is full of [ __ ] old
fuds who are lobbyists and evil as [ __ ] so interesting yeah we don't really do the nra
anymore it's a doa and fpc um do a lot of really good stuff for for gun advocacy
oh wow okay so the g.o.a and the fpc and what does the fpc stand for again
firearms policy coalition they're awesome okay awesome i will check those out
yeah guns were very scary to me the idea of them for a long time
uh but then it was part of my sort of uh getting out of my liberal brainwashing it's like no like
what like once you own a house i'm not there yet but it's like yeah of course it's like you have
and especially if you have like a family or loved ones to protect even if it's just you
yeah um there's so many reasons i mean for me like you know i'm a self-defense advocacy and i've done
women self-defense advocacy for a very long time right and my the biggest thing for me is trying to
convince women that like guns aren't scary like just go try it i think you know i think that if
you should come to texas and shoot one with me you'd have to yeah blast so much fun i've been
to the austin shooting range um that was but that was maybe six months ago or so yeah well yeah like
come out and shoot some some really fun guns and and uh you know the problem is it's kind of
sad but like you know i've uh i've done a lot of firearms training for women and unfortunately what
inspires women to come out for the first time is often like they've been raped they've been robbed
they've been stalked assaulted burglarized you know whatever and so they've already gone through
a trauma and getting a gun and training is like a reaction for them uh to the to the trauma and
trying to you know and it actually it could be a really good part of therapy to to become empowered
and and they want to feel like they're in control of their safety which is great it's almost as
effective as therapy um you know learning how to shoot or learning how to defend yourself but
at the same time i wish that more women would be proactive and learn how to defend themselves and
you know learn how to protect themselves before they become victims because some of those not all
of them obviously but some perhaps could have been prevented um if we could have just gotten
self-defense training early on so that's kind of what we try to do is like advocate for proactive
self-defense right because everybody thinks it's never gonna happen to them everybody thinks
it's not going to happen but i've seen so many horrific things that it's like
i just want everybody to be able to defend themselves that's it
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