# Thoughts on GD moderation change for Gun Debate threads **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [May 19, 2022, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thoughts-on-gd-moderation-change-for-gun-debate-threads/964717 "2022-05-19T22:23:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 37
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2022, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thoughts-on-gd-moderation-change-for-gun-debate-threads/964717/37 "2022-05-27T20:34:07Z")
> [@mordecaiB](#): > > What’s a lot of flags? I thought we were told that there are only a few flags a day, less than 10 for the entire board. Does opening a gun thread double the amount of flags? The Baldwin thread thing baffles me. I think I read that thread from the beginning and I can’t recall any arguments, tho it’s been stretched out over several weeks. Actually, gun threads probably do double the number of flags and that includes the spam flags. * * * FTR: I think something important came out in a shooting thread when the gun part of the debate was left out. > [@Police response during mass shooting event {Not Gun Control, 2nd Amendment or Politics}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-response-during-mass-shooting-event-not-gun-control-2nd-amendment-or-politics/965165): > > My husband and I have been discussing how the Uvalde shooting was handled. There were parents at the school while it was still going on that were being prevented from entering the school by police officers. My husband is telling me that the data (based on other mass shootings) says that every available officer should have gone into the building to neutralize the shooter. That is, having every available officer going in increases the probability and speed of neutraluzing the threat. Therefore… Plenty of us didn’t realize the Police aren’t actually required to protect the public. Keeping the guns & politics has made for a really informative thread that did cover new ground. * * * --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thoughts-on-gd-moderation-change-for-gun-debate-threads/964717)._