# 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, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-positive-gun-news/839675/98 "2019-09-05T09:21:53Z")

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> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#):
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> That thread is not for discussion in any way shape or form; it’s for _agreement_.
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> ETA: And it’s an embarrassment to the SDMB.

I don’t know if I’d call it an embarrassment, but I will say this. I _wish_ I could have the level of “safe space” protection for [my recent thread about concentration camps](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=877382). Instead, we had [a level of trolling](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21716813&postcount=288) that leaves **Fear Itself** ’s statements about gun control in the dust (and yes, I _did_ in fact report it, and I’m pretty sure I DM’d some mods about it too, nobody cared), and [it continued until page 14](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21731197&postcount=660) (with no warning issued). This despite the fact that I set out the parameters of the discussion in _far_ greater detail than **Bone** did in his “positive gun news” thread:

> [@What Effect Will Trump's Concentration Camps have on his reelection campaign?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-effect-will-trumps-concentration-camps-have-on-his-reelection-campaign/835738/44):
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> Also, quick meta note.
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> I’d rather we not discuss whether or not we’re actually running concentration camps at the borders. At least if you don’t have at least some form of expertise (say, a historian, or a holocaust expert) to weigh in with. This thread is not about the “whether”, it’s about the “electoral impacts of”, and while “this isn’t a thing that will have an impact because it’s not a thing” is a take one can have, I sincerely doubt that anyone involved is going to step the rhetoric down, especially as conditions in the camps continue to worsen and people keep on dying. Whether “concentration camp” is 100% accurate or not, now it’s out in the mainstream, and it’s very unlikely that that genie gets put back in the bottle.
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> (Besides, I tried to have that conversation before and it didn’t go well. I do welcome anyone interested to make their own thread, and I’ll gladly participate in it, but let’s try to keep this thread on topics germane to elections, i.e. “what will this do to the polls”.)

This went almost completely ignored. Which, at the time, I was disappointed about, but hey - it happens. Threads here _aren’t_ safe spaces, and telling people “please don’t disagree in this thread about issue X” isn’t something we generally do here.

Except now I see that we _absolutely_ do that here. With certain subjects. :rolleyes:

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