# Gun threads galore **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 27, 2013, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-threads-galore/648553 "2013-01-27T19:36:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-threads-galore/648553/1 "2013-01-27T19:36:45Z")
Have we reached the point where discussions of firearms and gun control need their own forum? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-threads-galore/648553/2 "2013-01-27T19:57:57Z")
No. This too shall pass. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-threads-galore/648553/3 "2013-01-27T19:59:09Z")
Pretty much as JLA says. Until the next big event in which far too many stupid people are unable to discuss things in the 5,000 existing threads and each feel the pressing ego-need to start their own. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-threads-galore/648553/4 "2013-01-27T20:02:05Z")
No, especially since the threads are so repetitive. There have been a lot of gun-related threads in the last six weeks so because of the Newtown shooting and the gun control debate that has followed, but eventually a bill will either pass or not and these discussions will be overtaken by other news. The next deficit crisis isn’t too far away, for example. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-threads-galore/648553/5 "2013-01-27T20:15:37Z")
Are you kidding me? An average of [3.84](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php) posts per day is a lot by many standards, but there are a huge number of more prolific posters. ---
**Author:** ![R3d\_Anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-threads-galore/648553/6 "2013-01-27T20:30:41Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Have we reached the point where discussions of firearms and gun control need their own forum? **Lumpy** , what is it with you and guns? :D:dubious: You seem like you’re _obsessed_ with defending gun ownership. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-threads-galore/648553/7 "2013-01-27T20:48:38Z")
Would you clone a gun thread? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-threads-galore/648553/8 "2013-01-27T20:53:26Z")
Shouldn’t this thread be moved to The Shooter’s Lounge? ---
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-threads-galore/648553/9 "2013-01-27T21:09:31Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Have we reached the point where discussions of firearms and gun control need their own forum? You could call it The Powder Room. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-threads-galore/648553/10 "2013-01-27T21:13:01Z")
No, the next big issue is right around the corner and gun control will drop off the radar of the media. Do we really need a forum full of threads that all end up the same way by page two? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-threads-galore/648553/11 "2013-01-27T21:18:14Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > Are you kidding me? An average of [3.84](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php) posts per day is a lot by many standards, but there are a huge number of more prolific posters. [I thought you had this poster in mind.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php) ---
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-threads-galore/648553/12 "2013-01-27T21:20:02Z")
> [@Beastly\_Rotter](#): > > You could call it The Powder Room. Or The Gun Lobby. Damn _esprit d’escalier_. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-threads-galore/648553/13 "2013-01-27T21:27:19Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Have we reached the point where discussions of firearms and gun control need their own forum? Better yet, a different website. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-threads-galore/648553/14 "2013-01-27T21:32:27Z")
> [@Beastly\_Rotter](#): > > You could call it The Powder Room. Hell, no, it’d get all the poop threads, too. How about From My Cold Dead Fingers? ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-threads-galore/648553/15 "2013-01-27T21:43:59Z")
> [@Anonymous User](#): > > **Lumpy** , what is it with you and guns? :D:dubious: You seem like you’re _obsessed_ with defending gun ownership. No more so than the people obsessed with condemning it. In any event, I thought having a separate forum might actually consolidate some of the umpty threads we have going. ---
**Author:** ![R3d\_Anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-threads-galore/648553/16 "2013-01-27T22:26:49Z")
I think it would be better if we had sub-forums within Great Debates. Like have one for “Politics and Government”, and have another one for “Religion”. This way all debates related to Obama, gun laws, and other political discussions will get filtered through the Politics and Government sub-forum, and all the religious debates will get filtered through the Religion sub-forum. The reason for this is that often times I go into GD, not to argue politics or religion, but to participate in some other kind of debate that interests me. I don’t know about anyone else, but politics and religious debates don’t really interest me, and I bet there are a lot of people out there like me who want to participate in debates that are not related to either politics or religion. So adding those sub-forums would help filter out any of the political or religious debates, and I’ve seem quite a few Message Boards do this. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-threads-galore/648553/17 "2013-01-27T22:42:05Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > No more so than the people obsessed with condemning it. In any event, I thought having a separate forum might actually consolidate some of the umpty threads we have going. If it helps, I’ve changed my views since joining the Boards. I’d probably never wander into a sub-forum (nor would I ever visit a gun-specific forum except to follow a link), so I would have likely missed a lot of the conversations over the years. I cannot be the only one. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-threads-galore/648553/18 "2013-01-27T22:46:24Z")
> [@Anonymous User](#): > > I don’t know about anyone else, but politics and religious debates don’t really interest me, and I bet there are a lot of people out there like me who want to participate in debates that are not related to either politics or religion. So adding those sub-forums would help filter out any of the political or religious debates, and I’ve seem quite a few Message Boards do this. You’re not forced to read or participate in threads that don’t appeal to you. If a particular type of thread doesn’t interest you, scroll past it. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-threads-galore/648553/19 "2013-01-27T22:53:40Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Hell, no, it’d get all the poop threads, too. > > How about From My Cold Dead Fingers? How about Bungalow Bill of Rights? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-threads-galore/648553/20 "2013-01-28T04:08:46Z")
Gun threads are a basic right. Closing even one violates people’s Second Amendment rights. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-threads-galore/648553.md?page=2)