Has anyone here noticed any odd trends?

I have noticed more posting lately that on the surface seems innocent but may actually be trolling. Some of it may not be DU people, but judging by the kinds of questions they ask I wonder if they are federal law enforcement people looking for "domestic terrorists."

A good example would be if someone asks for references to things which are commonly known or which a Google search would easily obtain, such as asking for other internet gun forums, as if there were "secret" ones not obtainable on Google or some other more fancy search program. There also appear to be instances of posters asking for comments here which the poster could then interpret according to their law enforcement task, like asking questions about sniping, illegal modifications, etc.

I have noticed also questions about politics that seem so ignorant or immature they couldn't even be from a young person or a person from another country and that makes me wonder further if someone isn't looking to sniff out extremists.

If all questions are answered politely it will certainly help our image. :)

I do not always meet the above goal. :o

Oh well,
:)
 
You may be referring to my gun forum question. I could google for 1000 forums, but I dont get an opinion on how good it may be from google. Theres usually a simple innocent explanation if one bothers to ask, but I an certain that anti-gun folks and law enforcement agencies visit this and many other forums.
 
I have noticed som e more hostilities, just stopping short of trolling, both here and on THR.

I hate to judge by post count, but the day I started to realize this was the day I saw a two page thread with all but one or two respondants having less than 30 posts, arguing over something somewhat fanatically.
 
I really believe that over the years starting back in the 60's, our school systems became part of the big picture of disarming America. a unarmed population can not fight back against a government trying to turn its self into a dictatorship. so they started with our young in the city's and the suburbs and have been trying as of late to move out into the smaller farming community's and such. but it seems that they are having a harder time of it out here in the country. mankind has had some sort of weapon for thousands of years, the weapon has changed, but the need is still the same.
its a human right.

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There are odd trends all the time.

I think I've put one person on my ignore list in the 5+ years I've been here.

I know I'm on more than one individual's ignore list.

All I can say to that is *$%)(*&^)(*&$ ya if you can't take the truth.
 
In all the forums I've used, I've never used an ignore button, and I've been on some pretty rough forums. Its just a forum after all.
 
I find myself agreeing with Xavier and a few others....I must be slipping. :)

Wonder if I can put me on my ignore list? :o

Seriously tho, I have.....A FEW TIMES......lost a little civility and gotten into a heated debate or 3, but I'm a little morton downey at times. :D

This is the absolute best forum that I have ever had the pleasure of being part of. I have learned alot here, and learn more every day.

You know your a DIE HARD TFL'er when you spend a week in the hospital with no internet access and you wonder whats going on at TFL...... :rolleyes:
 
Some relatively innocuous threads seem to have too easily drifted from what appears to be having to explain the basic principles of the political philosophy of RKBA to a need to rehash and rebut tired old DNC rhetoric which uses slightly different words and slightly different phrasiology than last year's rhetoric.
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It seems pretty clear that the DNC and their allies in DU/moveon.org and the anti-RKBA organizations have formulated a plan to split gun owners, the hunters from the sport/recreational/self defense folks.

You saw the beginnings of this in the last election, who can forget Kerry the goose hunter? This time, they're going to be better prepared. They've created a front group, "the American Hunters and Shooters Association" that they can use to camoflage their agenda:
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Just as they've hidden their socialist agenda through their "it's for the children" nonsense, they're going to disguise their anti-RKBA agenda under "we're for gun safety and hunting" rhetoric.

The problem is, it could work. There are a significant number of hunters and skeet shooters who will throw the handgun/assault rifle owners under the bus, if they think their guns will be protected. There are also others who are basically democrats who don't vote democratic because of the parties hard line stance against guns. If the DNC can soft-peddle or hide completely that agenda, then they can gain votes that way. We're also likely to see quite a few "pro-gun" democrat candidates magically appear in red states.

To that end, we'll all be seeing a lot more of what MeekAndMild has noticed. Activists, either on their own or under instruction, will hit all the gun forums to try and sell the pro-gun democrat lie, and/or the old cold-war liberal/left chestnut, the "moral equivalency" argument: "there's no difference between the republicans and democrats blah blah blah". All with one aim - split the gun vote so that the democrats will win.

Hopefully, these activists will be identified and ejected before spreading dissention and ill-will within the gun community. If the democrats do win, they will take their vengeance on us for taking the last two elections away from them, and do their best to geld the gun culture.
 
To that end, we'll all be seeing a lot more of what MeekAndMild has noticed. Activists, either on their own or under instruction, will hit all the gun forums to try and sell the pro-gun democrat lie, and/or the old cold-war liberal/left chestnut, the "moral equivalency" argument: "there's no difference between the republicans and democrats blah blah blah". All with one aim - split the gun vote so that the democrats will win.
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There sure were a lot of Kerry apologists around here prior to the election. Most of them seem to have gone elsewhere since they lost.

I'm sure we'll see a resurgence of old members coming back and new members becoming active before the next elections.
 
Well said, Rebar. I've been lax in my attendance at TFL after pursuing another hobby, digital photo, for a few months. But I have noticed a number of inputs here from supposed gun owners who have a definite left leaning philosophy. It's their right, of course. However, since the Democrat Party has been so anti gun and gun owner for so many years beginning in the late 60's, it's reminiscent of the old "Jews for Hitler" analogy. Something's rotten in Denmark. One just can't rationalize away Kennedy, Schumer, Feinstein, Boxer, Clinton, et al. In fact Feinstein has built her entire political career on gun control efforts of one stripe or another. And Boxer has followed with a big "MeToo!" every time. I wouldn't trust the DNC on gun issues under any circumstances. I would concur with the opinion that the tack taken will manifest itself in attemps to drive a wedge between hunters and others of us in the gun owning, collecting, or defensive shooting sports.
 
All this makes me very happy to know little about this area of US politics. It all seems very dirty. Regarding the splitting of groups...don't the groups overlap usually? Wouldnt most people be a member of more than one shooting group (hunting, self defense, etc)?
 
Were that it were true, Chorlton. In past battles, however, often hunters and shotgunners (not all, of course) have been known to support private ownership restrictions on semiautomatic rifles in the military configuration (AW's) and handguns so long as the legislation omitted any mention of hunting rifles or shotguns. This is one reason the NRA has recently redoubled its efforts to more closely connect with the hunting fraternity to insure everybody knows we all have a dog in this fight. One guy's scoped hunting rifle is an anti's "sniper weapon".
 
Kerry who?
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Sure, we can mock him now. But be assured, they learned from this mistake, they won't be so clumsy or obvious next time.
 
In past battles, however, often hunters and shotgunners (not all, of course) have been known to support private ownership restrictions on semiautomatic rifles in the military configuration (AW's) and handguns so long as the legislation omitted any mention of hunting rifles or shotguns.
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Isn't it ironic that probably the best place for true RKBA folks to tap for a larger base is the soccer moms who now hold a CCW? How many of these new gun owners know the politics of gun ownership?
 
OK as far as treating newbies as trolls or DU agents

Not to many years ago I was one of those who thought that AKs should be banned and anybody that had more than a couple of hunting guns and a pistol for self defense was a threat.
I carried in my glove box but that was because I worked nights in a bad part of town. Most people did not have this justification.
When CCW was passed in Fa I thought that it was a bad idea. Every criminal in Fla that hadn't been caught yet would now be armed and road rage would be much more deadly than it was before.
For a short period ,about a weekend, after the bill passed a loophole in the law allowed open carry. I carried an old Model 10 in protest of this new dangerous law.

It wasn't being called an unamerican sickening liberal threat to free society that got me to change my views
 
It wasn't being called an unamerican sickening liberal threat to free society that got me to change my views
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You try and try to help a guy see how sickening he really is... ;)

I love honey, but can usually pass on vinegar. Am I like a fly?
 
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