The man who fatally shot a woman who was in a car that turned into the wrong driveway was sentenced Friday to 25 years to life for his second-degree murder conviction.
At the end of the day, it is all very vague, subjective, and ill defined, and will lead to confusion when not defined further and by objective measures like responsibility which is commonly held to mean safety in this context. Applying your own secret meanings to “gun people” like “some guy I know is cool so he isn’t one” is just not a good basis for being understood by people who don’t also know “Steve” or whoever you deem responsible. You can disagree with that all you wish, but clearly that is the case being that I wasn’t the only one who thought it meant all gun people not just some gun people. I don’t particularly care about you or your state, but if one wants to be understood, they should take the words they write into account.
Though if you said bread people, depending on context, if said like “bread people are idiots,” would assume you’re one of those “carnivore diet” people that refuses pasta, bread, and the like, or if said like “hey head over to the bread people and grab a loaf” I would assume you mean a literal bread shop. Fwiw.
Same for car people. Just regular conversation? Yes, you’re correct. On c/fuckcars? No I assume they mean anyone with a car. All of lemmy is basically c/fuckguns, coincidentally, so when I hear it here I assume probably correctly they meant all gun owners and the entire conversation after is basically walking that back to “nuh uh I meant irresponsible ones, I just didn’t say that because reasons.”
At the end of the day, it is all very vague, subjective, and ill defined, and will lead to confusion when not defined further and by objective measures like responsibility which is commonly held to mean safety in this context. Applying your own secret meanings to “gun people” like “some guy I know is cool so he isn’t one” is just not a good basis for being understood by people who don’t also know “Steve” or whoever you deem responsible. You can disagree with that all you wish, but clearly that is the case being that I wasn’t the only one who thought it meant all gun people not just some gun people. I don’t particularly care about you or your state, but if one wants to be understood, they should take the words they write into account.
Though if you said bread people, depending on context, if said like “bread people are idiots,” would assume you’re one of those “carnivore diet” people that refuses pasta, bread, and the like, or if said like “hey head over to the bread people and grab a loaf” I would assume you mean a literal bread shop. Fwiw.
Same for car people. Just regular conversation? Yes, you’re correct. On c/fuckcars? No I assume they mean anyone with a car. All of lemmy is basically c/fuckguns, coincidentally, so when I hear it here I assume probably correctly they meant all gun owners and the entire conversation after is basically walking that back to “nuh uh I meant irresponsible ones, I just didn’t say that because reasons.”