In a post I saw on the Book of Faces, it was suggested by a veteran that instead of referring to assault weapons, we should be referring to them as semi-automatics, since that is a function that both pistols and rifles that have been used in these crimes have in common. An assault weapons ban would be easier to circumvent due to the ambiguity that exists when defining what an assault weapon is, but if you refer to semi-autos then you grab both of them and in theory it would be harder to circumvent by changing superficial characteristics.
“We can never undo what we have done. We can never go back in time. We write history with our decisions and our actions. But we also write history with our responses to those actions. We can leave the pain and the damage in our wake, unattended, or we can do the work of acknowledging and fixing, to whatever extent possible, the harm that we have caused.”
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg