Moving on to some constructive criticism of a poster I like, but whom I think needs to be more careful of their posting habits on the subject of guns: @Ulfreida.
I repeat, I actually like this poster, and first want to state that it’s absolutely fine to dislike America’s gun culture, gun violence, and the consequences. I will likely agree 80% or so of the time, but that’s me, that’s them, and no problem if we disagree.
The problem is, that when guns come up in threads, you have a tendency to loose control of your internal filters and post in a manner that’s appropriate for the Pit, not for other forums. The most recent:
A prior offense:
I -get- it that you’re passionate, and frustrated, and none of those are bad things. At worst, I’m accusing you, in the words of the OP, of foot-in-mouth disease. The topic comes up, your passion kicks in, and you post in a manner that is wrong for the forum.
The ONLY reason I’m bringing it up here is that to my knowledge, it’s happened twice, perhaps more in threads I don’t see. Granted, spaced out by over two years (!) but it’s something you seem to be aware of, based on a later post in the second thread I linked. With the mods looking at patterns in mod-notes, I don’t want you pulling warnings. So keep the passion, feel free to disagree with me and other posters on the topic, but watch the forum.
End of sermon.