# What is "Positive Gun News"?

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**Created:** [September 4, 2019, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-positive-gun-news/839675 "2019-09-04T12:32:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 5, 2019, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-positive-gun-news/839675/91 "2019-09-05T01:35:26Z")

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> [@Slash1972](#):
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> It’s not only that. I posted a news item that seemed positive to me all around. It wasn’t a “gun control” post, but a celebration of guns being used in a positive manner. And I STILL got a warning. There’s no rhyme or reason to that thread, except to run your posts by **Bone** or another moderator before you can post them in that thread.

For the curious, [this](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21359315&postcount=1512) was the post in question that earned **manson** that warning:

> [@Positive Gun News of the Day](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/positive-gun-news-of-the-day/735490/1512):
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> This is like a double positive gun news story:
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> [Cops shoot homeowner](https://kdvr.com/2018/12/03/da-no-charges-against-aurora-officer-who-fatally-shot-armed-homeowner/)
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> First, the homeowner shot an intruder that was naked and inexplicably trying to drown a kid in the bathtub. THEN, the cops shot the homeowner because he didn’t put his gun down.
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> It’s win/win! Intruder killed, and a gun owner who doesn’t listen to police commands is killed. Awesome!

The warning, obviously, was for trolling. In [the ATMB thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=866665) you started about it, **manson** , you got some good and still highly relevant advice from **Colibri** :

> [@Warning in Positive Gun News](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-in-positive-gun-news/825585/8):
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> Y’know, when you’re told something is trolling, it would be better not to start a thread in ATMB to troll some more. This is extremely poor judgement on your part.

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