- CrazzySnipe55
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- Fabled Legendary Member
IMO, locking all gun control topics on-sight is silly. The real problem comes when people start bringing up political parties because that's a polarized topic in which no real discussion can be had.
"Abortion is wrong! Go republicans!"
"No it's not! Go democrats!"
Nobody's views can change, no arguments successfully rebutted, etc.
However, gun laws seem to transcend political party lines and rather become more of a social debate about what we should do to help society. Things like marijuana use, abortion, etc. are very personal things that do not affect society as a whole, but guns are more of a societal issue. When an incident occurs with guns, it's reacted to by a wide range of people.
As noted, outlawing the discussion of guns is just silly. I was in damn-near every one of those gun threads yesterday and not once did anyone that I saw, even -blam!- Rose, bring up any political party (democrats, republicans) or a ideology* (liberal, conservative). You're a mod. You're a person. Not a robot. Use the common sense and judgement that you have and a robot doesn't to be able to discern what should and should not be considered okay to talk about rather than "NO ALL GUN THREADS ARE BAD GO AWAY!"
*I believe I called myself a flaming lib in one of the "don't take away my guns" threads to show that even I, someone very much for gun control, was against getting rid of the second amendment altogether. But it was in passing, didn't spark a partisan or ideological discussion, and wasn't inflammatory in any way.