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Javaman

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122. I have hardly ever trash threads, that is, until this week.

Reply to WilliamPitt (Original post)

Wed Jul 25, 2012, 02:40 PM

Jul 2012

I'm making very liberal use of the function.

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Gun violence turns GD into a really sick place. [View all] WilliamPitt Jul 2012 OP

Post removed Post removed Jul 2012 #1

Send in the clowns... onehandle Jul 2012 #5

+1 Lex Jul 2012 #14

The orcs have boiled up out of their pit. hifiguy Jul 2012 #22

I am still more interested in Baingate Xyzse Jul 2012 #2

These massacres make DU resemble Free Republic. myrna minx Jul 2012 #3

+1 HuckleB Jul 2012 #118

The problem is the Gungeon trolls who refuse... ellisonz Jul 2012 #4

+1 xchrom Jul 2012 #6

Yes, because our disagreement on one issue makes us bannable. Indydem Jul 2012 #7

Seems like all sides in this issue are saying your last sentence. People react to how they are being patrice Jul 2012 #9

I don't know your exact positions. ellisonz Jul 2012 #11

Your use of the term "they" here implies that you know what all those DU members think. L0oniX Jul 2012 #40

+1 Go Vols Jul 2012 #126

Ahem. *You* are not a mindreader. How very Gellerish of you friendly_iconoclast Jul 2012 #65

And all the things you discussed in your first paragraph... krispos42 Jul 2012 #69

lol ellisonz Jul 2012 #70

So you're wimping out? krispos42 Jul 2012 #85

This message was self-deleted by its author Hassin Bin Sober Jul 2012 #101

rofl ellisonz Jul 2012 #105

the super-sized magazines are krispos42 Jul 2012 #133

Your point #2 begs the question. And ISTR there is no Department of Needs... friendly_iconoclast Jul 2012 #123

There are MANY "disagreement on one issue" issues that will get you banned here. Lex Jul 2012 #12

Parroting mantras of Republican-run .orgs is not "disagreement". Tejas Jul 2012 #34

Are you still maintaining that gun control is a REPUBLICAN position? Hugabear Jul 2012 #53

What part of Brady/VPC run by Repubs confuses you?. Tejas Jul 2012 #54

Pretty much and those that buy into it gopiscrap Jul 2012 #104

The two responses above me prove the OP is right Hugabear Jul 2012 #117

+2 Chorophyll Jul 2012 #10

Funny how GD is awash in OPs saying we should ban guns 4th law of robotics Jul 2012 #19

*le sight* ellisonz Jul 2012 #21

This being the internet 4th law of robotics Jul 2012 #23

Well this is a site for Democrats... ellisonz Jul 2012 #24

You corrected me on grammar 4th law of robotics Jul 2012 #25

"are you now saying the grammar discriminates based on politics?" ellisonz Jul 2012 #28

The "Democrat Party" 4th law of robotics Jul 2012 #29

I never implied you were a gun nut... ellisonz Jul 2012 #31

I do permatex Jul 2012 #89

By proxy yes. nt Remmah2 Jul 2012 #97

...unless they are Democrats that own a gun. L0oniX Jul 2012 #41

Bullshit. n/t ellisonz Jul 2012 #47

Don't you have a gynocracy to bitch about, O oppressed one? Scootaloo Jul 2012 #79

Didn't you have some nonsensical ad-hominem to "contribute" . . . 4th law of robotics Jul 2012 #103

and on the other side of it... Maine-ah Jul 2012 #32

No, the Aurora murderer would not have obtained those guns if we had decent regulation of guns...eom Kolesar Jul 2012 #38

it certainly could have been made more difficult. Warren Stupidity Jul 2012 #80

I couldn't agree with you more. ellisonz Jul 2012 #46

Shut up and sit down. Remmah2 Jul 2012 #94

The other problem is that all DU gun owners are being attacked as if they are Repukes... L0oniX Jul 2012 #37

I haven't really seen such posts... ellisonz Jul 2012 #45

THere have been hundreds of such posts. I was here all weekend and I have never Mojorabbit Jul 2012 #63

If you can't understand why people are upset... ellisonz Jul 2012 #64

Fastest backpedal I've ever seen permatex Jul 2012 #90

Unbelievable. Remmah2 Jul 2012 #98

gun owners are not being attacked. gun nuts are being attacked. Warren Stupidity Jul 2012 #81

That is not true at all, they most certainly were being attacked this weekend. nt Mojorabbit Jul 2012 #116

if it was true it was rare. Warren Stupidity Jul 2012 #124

No it was towards gun owners not nuts Mojorabbit Jul 2012 #131

then you are going to have to provide links Warren Stupidity Jul 2012 #132

Yup. obamanut2012 Jul 2012 #87

What hubris on your part ProgressiveProfessor Jul 2012 #48

The Gungeon exists for a reason. ellisonz Jul 2012 #52

You are dancing ProgressiveProfessor Jul 2012 #56

By disrupting every thread regular DUers have on the event... ellisonz Jul 2012 #58

There is a pretty substantial number of people on DU that support RKBA badtoworse Jul 2012 #59

I'm sorry "support RKBA" ellisonz Jul 2012 #61

The NRA has 4 million members badtoworse Jul 2012 #77

So posting things you disagree with is disruptive? ProgressiveProfessor Jul 2012 #60

Posting extremist positions ad nauseum after a tragic event is disuptive. ellisonz Jul 2012 #62

More name calling and then resignation on your part ProgressiveProfessor Jul 2012 #67

More like: Disagreeing with the Great And Powerful Guardian of Progressivism is disruptive friendly_iconoclast Jul 2012 #68

Bingo. They want to delegitimize dissenting opinions, pure and simple. friendly_iconoclast Jul 2012 #66

I meant to ask, what's a regular DUer? badtoworse Jul 2012 #78

"Is it only DUers that agree with you?" Apparently... friendly_iconoclast Jul 2012 #120

Yep. Kingofalldems Jul 2012 #51

Refuse to permit the vast... how? NewMoonTherian Jul 2012 #71

Mr. "gun rights absolutist" ellisonz Jul 2012 #72

I see you are still laboring under the impression Union Scribe Jul 2012 #73

And I thought you had left us... ellisonz Jul 2012 #74

It's nice to have fans. Union Scribe Jul 2012 #75

Notice he didn't answer the question? permatex Jul 2012 #92

I like you guys thing remembering what you read on DU is "creepy." ellisonz Jul 2012 #108

Okay, I brushed up on it. NewMoonTherian Jul 2012 #109

Extremists/wing-nuts are not welcome. n/t ellisonz Jul 2012 #111

That describes neither myself nor any of the other pro-gun regulars here. n/t NewMoonTherian Jul 2012 #112

Actually, it describes quite a number of "pro-gun regulars." n/t ellisonz Jul 2012 #113

Then alert on our posts. NewMoonTherian Jul 2012 #114

"I still don't understand how you think that takes place." ellisonz Jul 2012 #115

So when and where are we allowed to post? NewMoonTherian Jul 2012 #121

Absolutely agreed! RW talking points seeping from that cesspool. morningfog Jul 2012 #100

i agree krhines Jul 2012 #128

Yeah, it's interesting to see long-standing DU-ers say that the government is going to take our guns patrice Jul 2012 #8

I'm still shocked at how many pro-violence people are here gregoire Jul 2012 #13

So you can point out posters that support what the shooter did? Really? nt hack89 Jul 2012 #15

posts like the one you respond to are what makes this forum a sewer when shit like this happens. dionysus Jul 2012 #17

When they advocate the sale of high-capacity magazines... ellisonz Jul 2012 #30

i don't obsess about the gungeon like you do, so maybe there are fools who would like to own dionysus Jul 2012 #33

When they want to oppose regulation... ellisonz Jul 2012 #36

bye. don't write. dionysus Jul 2012 #43

Why would you want to ban those extended mags. permatex Jul 2012 #99

What you consider reasonable led to this tragedy... ellisonz Jul 2012 #106

... pintobean Jul 2012 #55

Posts like this show how little many know about firearms. MercutioATC Jul 2012 #83

Posts like this show how little many know about public policy. ellisonz Jul 2012 #107

If it's a "sewer like shit", why have you continued to participate here since 2001? Kolesar Jul 2012 #39

gun tragedies always turn DU into a sewer, from both angles. dionysus Jul 2012 #44

the gungeon is the sewer, and the vast majority here avoid it like the plague. Warren Stupidity Jul 2012 #82

+1,000,000 Missycim Jul 2012 #102

Source? 4th law of robotics Jul 2012 #20

I've been thinking that I've become an outdated liberal sasha031 Jul 2012 #26

Strawmen make easy targets for rage and shock, don't they? Lizzie Poppet Jul 2012 #57

This is why I liked the "hide thread" option sakabatou Jul 2012 #16

The topic is of an important instinctual kind of behavior. Gregorian Jul 2012 #18

Mass murder and gun violence are an accepted, integral part of this culture, and have been for Zorra Jul 2012 #27

GD = Gun Discussion (Forum) L0oniX Jul 2012 #35

Tell that to the anti-2A people who post outside the forum. Remmah2 Jul 2012 #95

Yup. HappyMe Jul 2012 #42

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And so, you start a gun thread in GD JustABozoOnThisBus Jul 2012 #49

No different than people saying we should let torturers go and "look ahead" just1voice Jul 2012 #50

Can't the Moderators start transferring the gun avebury Jul 2012 #76

Sacred cows go bad very quickly sometimes. Rather smelly, too... LanternWaste Jul 2012 #84

Sounds like someone has a problem with the Democratic process. Remmah2 Jul 2012 #91

Derp WilliamPitt Jul 2012 #93

gunshit crazy spanone Jul 2012 #96

A GD gun thread complaining about GD gun threads? HooptieWagon Jul 2012 #110

Uh, durr WilliamPitt Jul 2012 #125

People with guns kill people. MNBrewer Jul 2012 #119

I have hardly ever trash threads, that is, until this week. Javaman Jul 2012 #122

I have been avoiding any thread on the subject..... Uben Jul 2012 #127

It's only 'sick' if you disagree with some of the threads. randome Jul 2012 #129

Sick as In Kick Ass? otohara Jul 2012 #130