Discussion about gun ownership and gun rights. Watch this TE thread implode in about 30 seconds to a party of one.
Can we please not have that here.
You just proved my point. If you allow one you allow all.
Don't be ridiculous, you know that logic doesn't work that way. That's the equivalent to saying "If you don't have a rule about X you don't have rules about anything". It's quite possible to have a margin of consideration for Specmaster posting off topic pictures of military aircraft that are weapons of war while saying that the politics of gun ownership are off topic. Accepting one does not imply accepting the other.
Exactly. And in case you haven't noticed, we
have had numerous discussions about guns and gun ownership in here, and for the most part, we
do self-moderate
very well. The only time I remember being really offended was when someone started mixing guns and religion... and all it took was a reminder that we were very close to going off the rails with these well-known 3rd rail topics, and please drop the conversation before it got too heated.
That seems to be the point that is getting lost: We are all adults here (well, to certain definitions of the term
, and we have proven over and over again that even when the discussion does get heated,
we all self-moderate pretty effectively and the noise dies down after a page or two.
Just like any IRL discussion between actual friends at the pub or workmates at the water cooler.Yeah, sure... there's always gonna be "that one time" someone said
something that made everybody else go
; ( Ifni knows it's been
me more than a few times
), but that is all part of the spice of life.
Being able to filter the world around you for yourself is part of being an adult; you don't have the right to go into any public place or forum and expect others to never go there. "Zero-tolerance" is as offensive a concept to many people as guns, politics and religion are to others; only a despot deals in absolutes.mnem
because reasons.