Words matter. And can be used to control and manipulate.
Ashley Hlebinsky testified on gun violence prevention efforts before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution focused primarily on the issue of “so-called ghost guns” which is a how they describe ‘homemade guns that lack serial numbers’ “Firstly, I am not going to use the term ghost gun and that is because, as a historian, I try to be as specific as possible and the term is used more as a rhetorical tool, as a marketing tool, and therefore can give the wrong impression of a sense of authority about this Subject, Ashley told the senators she continued.. “I know a lot of people here don’t necessarily like some of the technologies that exist today, but I really want to emphasize that innovation is also about making firearms safer,” she said.
May 11th, 2021 Ashley Hlebinsky is president of The Gun Code advisory group Ashley was formerly curator of Robert W. Woodruff Firearms Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center in Cody, Wyoming