# We need another gun thread

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**Created:** [May 29, 2022, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-another-gun-thread/965314 "2022-05-29T18:16:05Z")\
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What we don’t need are blanket bans on whole topics. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, moderator What\_Exit just shut down a thread about an AK-47 buyback proposal. The only reason given was, “We don’t really need another gun thread right now.”

> [@AK47 buy back scheme!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ak47-buy-back-scheme/965302/24):
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> We really don’t need another gun thread right now.

There’s lots of topics I think are over represented in these forums. Cats for one thing. But you know what? If I’ve had enough cat stories, i just don’t open those threads.

I don’t think a ban on all gun threads is appropriate, especially when gun violence is front and center in current events. What’s next? No abortion theads? No Trump threads? No insurrection threads?

I appreciate the work the mods do keep discussions civil, but blanket bans are not conducive to reasoned discourse.

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