Brilliant and totally serious Real Journalists™ are pitching fits over gun rights advocates’ insistence on using proper gun terminology when covering guns. Because, put simply, their feelings don’t care about facts. But unlike these journalists, tweeter @RobProvince actually knows a thing or two about guns — and he’s got the journos pegged, too. Earlier today, he put together a fantastic thread to explain why proper gun terminology actually matters, and why journalists are trying so hard to avoid using it:

OK… so here's the deal with journalists raging on twitter about gun terminology, knowing technical facts or proper definitions. Hell how guns even work. — EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) September 2, 2019

You see most journalists… most not all… are from well to do white families. Most avenues into journalism involve an internship and well. Rich white people can do that. — EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) September 2, 2019

Most of them are there for going to be from liberal families in blue cities. Not exposed to guns in any way. And very isolated in experience to people who have grown up with guns. — EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) September 2, 2019

Being rich and liberal and white means they’ve had their way most of their life. They get what that want. Many are legacy admits to Ivy schools…. Hi @mattyglesias ? — EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) September 2, 2019

So not much has been earned and they aren’t used to getting pushback especially from their lessors. Now add to the mix of this hyperinflated ego an easy major. And yes I’m going to offend some people here but Philosophy and Engineering aren’t equal. One is hard & one isn’t. — EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) September 2, 2019

So you have an entitled, white, liberal who now thinks they’re the smartest person in any room because they excelled at an easy major in a school they slid into. Look there’s a reason most journalists don’t have medical, engineering, STEM, etc degrees. Those are really hard. — EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) September 2, 2019

Now we get back to guns. This hyper inflated ego who thinks they’re smarter than anyone in the room suddenly is getting owned by rural high school educated folks online. Like…. really owned. — EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) September 2, 2019

These fragile egos can’t take that. They’re the smart one. They went to (insert bragging college here) and god dammit their thoughts and opinions are worth 1000x that of some hick who doesn’t in rural America. — EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) September 2, 2019

So what do they do? Every time they put out a tweet (that in their mind might as well be gospel) they get hammered with people pointing out all the technical mistakes in the tweet. Well they can’t have that. — EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) September 2, 2019

So what do these fragile millennials do? Learn about guns? Talk to people who own & live with them everyday? Of course not. They stomp their feet & throw a hissy fit & say being knowledgeable about guns is unnecessary. — EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) September 2, 2019

Being white is a major factor in this analogy as well. Because anyone who studies America’s gun laws knows (and I have) all gun laws… and I mean ALL OF THEM are rooting in racist ideals to keep firearms out of the hands of black and brown people. — EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) September 2, 2019

How did Apple turn live into doesn’t? Auto correct might be the weirdest algorithm on the internet. https://t.co/JeSpNcqeFQ — EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) September 2, 2019

Heh. But @RobProvince’s points still stand.

I’m going to warm my family this winter with the radiant heat from this thread. — Fuzzy Chimp (@fuzzychimpcom) September 2, 2019

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