Jonathan Chance has deemed it fit to close the latest gun control debate thread by declaring it “dead”.
I don’t know if that’s mod humor or a fitting end to the usual morass.
Not a complaint. Just a 
I thought at first that this was some sort of second coming proclamation.
Man, I could have phrased that better, couldn’t I?
Honestly, given the rising vitriol and the endless succession of reports I figured calling a time out was best. Hopefully the participants can step back and rethink their approach to the debate.
Or you know… reload.
But radio killed the video star.
Media revisionist!
So why don’t you warn or mod note the offenders and let everyone else debate instead of banning an entire topic for a day?
Well, FWIW I think it was a good call. Basically, the thread had, again, fallen into the same old endless wrangle about the 2nd Amendment that we’ve done over and over again. Most of the discussion that had a point already had been said on both sides, and it was a good thread until the final 2 pages. I think you pulled the plug at a good time, especially since, from my part, I know I was on thin ice with my temper rising…and I doubt I was the only one.
To the OP of both this thread and that one, I’d say you got quite a lot of input and having that thread continue would have ruined it. Again, FWIW and IMHO and all.
Probably a good call. A note or a lite-warning would probably have gotten lost in the shuffle. A time-out is a little harder to “not notice”.
Yes, Bone gave a Note to two offenders that really needed a Warning.
I think the Mods there showed amazing forbearance and patience.
You’ve been here HOW LONG?!?!?
No, we have had gun control debates that weren’t this bad.
True, most do not have their tone set with stinkers like:
](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21788912&postcount=60)
Which calls us all out as liars who are using tragedies as a pretense to ban and confiscate guns. And considering that it has been stated often, in that thread and others, that gun confiscation means bloodshed, what Bone is saying here, what I am certainly hearing, is that we are lying about our intentions in order to get gun owners killed.
Actually that whole post is pretty jerkish, full of “potshots” at other posters.
Maybe the thread should have been closed at that point, and saved us the frustration of the next 400 posts trying to explain, against more and more hostility, hijacks, and attempts at derailment, that that is not a fair assessment of our position.
I was in some of them. And being pretty much in the middle between both extremes I felt everyone kept it pretty much on point and polite. But today this is one of those topics where too many people in this country, not just this board, let their tempers flare and communication breaks down in an endless torrent of “oh yeah? Well take this”.
True. Some have their tone set with stinkers like:
Regards,
Shodan
Shodan, please! I JUST got this new SDMB hardened irony meter working and you nearly blew it up, especially when it’s calibrated to look at the OTHER thread in this forum concerning this! Now I’ve got to replace all the burned out circuits and harden the thing even more!
Grumble grumble
A well regulated Hamster Wheel, being necessary to the security of a free SDMB, the right of the people to keep and bear Exploding Irony Meters, shall not be infringed.
Regards,
[del]Thomas Jefferson[/del] Shodan
I guess you got shot down.