The right name

"If you don't call the things by the correct name you can't have an opinion on the things" is just another way of sidestepping and yet another excuse to avoid the issue. Another convenient and morally absolving way of dismissing opinions. Another way of squirming out of any responsibility for the carnage they cause. I don't care if we call them semi-autonomic, assault rifles, "military-style", Shooty-Bang-Sticks, or Ferdinand. There's some very basic facts about guns that the lay person understands perfectly well enough to have a valid opinion on if certain kinds (or any at all) aught to be widely available. Most people know very little about the inter-workings of, or the specific proper names for nuclear weapons... and yet, they know perfectly well enough what they're designed to do. Our lawmakers are not technocrats nor would it be possible for them to be on every subject matter they represent their constituents on.