The dialogue so far ...

[Scuba]

[SunSeeker]

1. Ain't that the truth.

A gungeoneer just tried to marginalize me as some kind of "anti-gunner" who thinks "all gun owners are the same." As I explained to him, I'm not and I don't. I don't want to ban all guns, I just want reasonable gun controls. And I point out the statistics to spread the truth that guns don't protect you, and hopefully people will choose not to own one--and maybe a life will be saved. Unfortunately, domestic violence, drunkenness, depression and just plain stupidity are all too common. Combine that with a gun in the house, and you have a gun death. What is rare is home intruders. That is why you are 43 times more likely to be killed by your own gun than by an intruder's.

I did not even start commenting on gun posts until over the last year; since Sandy Hook, mostly. I came here for a safe place to discuss Democratic politics among progressives without having to deal with Republican trolls crapping on threads like at HuffPo and the like. And after Sandy Hook, the gun stories really started popping up and it got on my radar. Then I discovered the ugly world of the DU gungeon, and all its NRA apologists.

So much for finding a safe site without trolls. It pisses me off, particularly when they post a bullshit opinion piece like this OP as "Late Breaking News," to claim--without any facts--that guns have created a "jobs boom."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=434371
Then they proceed to use the thread not to talk about jobs but to spew their anti-gun control talking points that belong in the gungeon. You'll find it all there: ARs are just the same as any gun (so don't ban it), banning extended mags won't solve anything (so don't do it), blah, blah, blah. I actually tried to respond to all of the propaganda this time and it went on forever. I am still getting peppered with gungeoneer replies mansplaining guns to me and telling me I don't know what I'm talking about. It is sickening.

[ellisonz]

2. They will always attack you and not your argument.

Sadly, the best thing to do is to just alert on them. I've similarly heard their whining about how unfair the jury system is to their "type." I would say that about half of the long-term gun trolls that I want gone from DU were made gone in the last year. I truly do wish Skinner would just step up and change the TOS to very clearly not permit NRA Talking Points but he's not going to do that, but when it gets ridiculous he will ban. I have hack89 on ignore, I suggest you do the same.

[SunSeeker]

3. The problem with us putting him on ignore is then we can't be on his jury.

That is why, I suspect, the gungeoneers are surviving alerts.

[ellisonz]

4. True but if they're getting on your last nerve...

[SunSeeker]

5. LOL. Yes, but I guess I am not there yet. nt

[safeinOhio]

6. I love this group.

Blocked members.
1 hack89
2 skinnytrees
3 Eleanors38
4 Crepuscular
5 AnotherMcIntosh
6 Bay Boy
7 ManiacJoe
8 Remmah2
9 bossy22
10 Straw Man
11 NutmegYankee
12 GoldenEagle16
13 oneshooter
14 Duckhunter935
15 WinniSkipper

I now longer visit the other gun group and have found life better.