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guillaumeb

(42,649 posts)
8. I understand your points. I have read many insulting posts.
Fri Aug 26, 2016, 04:23 PM
Aug 2016

But the same arguments can be, and are made in nearly every other group here.

I was banned from one group for posting information from a "banned" site that was not explicitly named as forbidden in the rules for the group. I was told that I "should have known" and summarily blocked.

And if you go to the "religion" group there is also much passionate discussion. I agree that name calling serves no purpose other than to make discussion difficult.

My pet peeve among gun enthusiasts is the tendency to fixate on terms such as "assault weapons". Many enthusiasts will tell you that the "Deathmaster 700" is not really an assault weapon because of (insert technical jargon here), but the "Deathmaster 700 is really a hunting weapon that just happens to have a 50 shot magazine.

(Note: Deathmaster 700 was my made-up term. As far as I know there is no such weapon.)

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