# Thread and Topic Bans for Politics and Elections **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** sdmb\_rules-and-notes\ **Created:** [February 10, 2020, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-and-topic-bans-for-politics-and-elections/847726 "2020-02-10T10:56:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2024, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-and-topic-bans-for-politics-and-elections/847726/5 "2024-09-25T02:46:44Z")
DrDeth is thread-banned from this thread for engaging in a general gun control debate in a thread that was not about a general gun control debate: > [@Kamala Harris' recent comments on guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-recent-comments-on-guns/1007591): > > As it’s apparently a bit specific for the [general Kamala Harris Election Runup thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571/1422). I’ll start one here. Recently VP Harris said this about being a gun owner: Vice President Kamala Harris told a visibly shocked Oprah Winfrey on Thursday that an intruder who breaks into her home would be “getting shot, sorry.” With a laugh, she followed up: “I probably shouldn’t have said that. My staff will deal with it later.” So I do actually have a problem with that attitude towards gun ownership (I h… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-and-topic-bans-for-politics-and-elections/847726)._