Petition to forbid support of the NRA at DU

[ThatPoetGuy]

457. I have a hard time with real problems, no need to create imaginary ones.

"How do you determine if someone is a gun nut?"

How do you determine if someone is a racist? Racism is prohibited here.

If they make a sweeping generalization, like, "All Asian people are good at math," does that make them a racist? It's a racist comment, even though it's a positive generalization; would that be ban-worthy? Would that be hide-worthy? It's for the community to decide.

The jury system allows us to create the standards for the community we'd like to build here. That person doesn't want to see what he or she describes as "gun nuts." I agree -- I don't think gun nuts have any more place here than racists.

We probably won't agree as to the particulars; we might draw the line in different places; but I agree with that person that there's a line that should be drawn. I hope he or she participates in many juries and helps to shape a better future for DU than the gun extremists have made thus far.

For me:
* if someone has posted fantasies about murdering cops, that person is a gun nut and should be banned;
* if someone's worldview is shaped entirely by a paranoid fantasy of "them" "coming to take our guns," that person's perspective is worthless, brainwashed, bought and paid for by the NRA, and should be banned;
* if someone states false information and continues to repeat it after it's been debunked, that person is too far gone to participate in discussion and should be banned;

among others.