Gun Control & RKBA

SecularMotion

(7,981 posts) Wed Sep 30, 2015, 09:54 PM Sep 2015

High School Students Try To Do Journalism On Guns, Gun-Humpers Freak Out

The wingnuttosphere is up in arms — concealed, openly carried, and hidden in the underwear drawer where their kids will never find them — over an “invasive” survey that some Texas high school journalists put together to gather information on whether students’ families owned guns and what their beliefs on regulation of guns were. Or as this headline from a gunhumping blog howled:

http://wonkette.com/594426/high-school-students-try-to-do-journalism-on-guns-gun-humpers-freak-out#p3Pz4Kr6BeLvoUQe.99

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High School Students Try To Do Journalism On Guns, Gun-Humpers Freak Out (Original Post) SecularMotion Sep 2015 OP

gun owners having an issue with free speech and expression. nt msongs Sep 2015 #1

So much bullshit in so few words. GGJohn Sep 2015 #2

You know...Funny thing is... virginia mountainman Sep 2015 #5

So very true Duckhunter935 Sep 2015 #6

almost as bad as gun banners having an issue with the amendment just after free speech. ileus Oct 2015 #10

I was blocked from the ironically-named "activist" group for inquiring... Eleanors38 Oct 2015 #11

Which is why every time someone suggests banning the NRA or charging its leadership Nuclear Unicorn Oct 2015 #16

Well, that's different of course DonP Oct 2015 #17

Any comment SecMo? GGJohn Sep 2015 #3

Yes, this is a "free speech area." Eleanors38 Oct 2015 #12

If my kid Ichigo Kurosaki Sep 2015 #4

Thank you krispos42 Sep 2015 #7

Gun-Humpers? Straw Man Oct 2015 #8

I hope the wonkette manages to get over gun owners... ileus Oct 2015 #9

Wow! Are those the Wonkettes?? Eleanors38 Oct 2015 #13

Well, Doktor Zoom has spoken, sarisataka Oct 2015 #14

Here's a link... discntnt_irny_srcsm Oct 2015 #15

msongs

(70,086 posts)

1. gun owners having an issue with free speech and expression. nt

Reply to SecularMotion (Original post)

Wed Sep 30, 2015, 09:57 PM

Sep 2015

GGJohn

(9,951 posts)

2. So much bullshit in so few words.

Reply to msongs (Reply #1)

Wed Sep 30, 2015, 10:00 PM

Sep 2015

virginia mountainman

(5,046 posts)

5. You know...Funny thing is...

Reply to msongs (Reply #1)

Wed Sep 30, 2015, 10:29 PM

Sep 2015

Your talking about gun owners having issues with free speech??

I was banned from GCRA for a misplaced post that existed only for a matter of seconds, that I deleted when I realized it was in the wrong place. Several days later this was the PM I received..

From Electric Monk:

Wear it with pride, and you didn't really want to post in GCRA anyways, right? Now you can't. nt

Now, what are you saying about free speech again?

Duckhunter935

(16,974 posts)

6. So very true

Reply to virginia mountainman (Reply #5)

Wed Sep 30, 2015, 10:46 PM

Sep 2015

I was blocked for agreeing with a poster

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1262&pid=1458

hypocrite is the correct word

ileus

(15,396 posts)

10. almost as bad as gun banners having an issue with the amendment just after free speech.

Reply to msongs (Reply #1)

Thu Oct 1, 2015, 05:57 AM

Oct 2015

Eleanors38

(18,318 posts)

11. I was blocked from the ironically-named "activist" group for inquiring...

Reply to msongs (Reply #1)

Thu Oct 1, 2015, 10:10 AM

Oct 2015

as to whether or not they would cite GOP sources (like Brady). Or for that matter, Bloomberg. About 50 cases of "issues with free speech and expression," at last count.

Nuclear Unicorn

(19,497 posts)

16. Which is why every time someone suggests banning the NRA or charging its leadership

Reply to msongs (Reply #1)

Thu Oct 1, 2015, 12:04 PM

Oct 2015

as terrorists you're the first to speak up against this egregious assault on the freedom of expression. Right?

DonP

(6,185 posts)

17. Well, that's different of course

Reply to Nuclear Unicorn (Reply #16)

Thu Oct 1, 2015, 12:36 PM

Oct 2015

Because, because, well GUNZ!

I'm thinkin' Post #5 applies to that poster.

GGJohn

(9,951 posts)

3. Any comment SecMo?

Reply to SecularMotion (Original post)

Wed Sep 30, 2015, 10:02 PM

Sep 2015

Oh, wait..........................

Eleanors38

(18,318 posts)

12. Yes, this is a "free speech area."

Reply to GGJohn (Reply #3)

Thu Oct 1, 2015, 10:12 AM

Oct 2015

Ichigo Kurosaki

(167 posts)

4. If my kid

Reply to SecularMotion (Original post)

Wed Sep 30, 2015, 10:24 PM

Sep 2015

had brought that home it would have went back with "None of your business" written on it.
I don't care if it is only a journalism assignment etc.

krispos42

(49,445 posts)

7. Thank you

Reply to SecularMotion (Original post)

Wed Sep 30, 2015, 10:51 PM

Sep 2015

Thank you for validating the argument that polls about household gun ownership are not accurate because of a reluctance of the pollee to answer such a question.

Straw Man

(6,760 posts)

8. Gun-Humpers?

Reply to SecularMotion (Original post)

Thu Oct 1, 2015, 12:45 AM

Oct 2015

Stay classy, SecMo.

ileus

(15,396 posts)

9. I hope the wonkette manages to get over gun owners...

Reply to SecularMotion (Original post)

Thu Oct 1, 2015, 05:55 AM

Oct 2015

I like it when folks are too stupid to come up with a proper argument.

Eleanors38

(18,318 posts)

13. Wow! Are those the Wonkettes??

Reply to ileus (Reply #9)

Thu Oct 1, 2015, 10:14 AM

Oct 2015

sarisataka

(20,863 posts)

14. Well, Doktor Zoom has spoken,

Reply to SecularMotion (Original post)

Thu Oct 1, 2015, 10:15 AM

Oct 2015

my day is complete

I don't believe for a moment the school was unaware of the poll. The faculty advisers would be well aware of a project of this scope.

Still, I see little wrong with the desire to print a 'serious' journalism article in a HS newspaper. I would have answered the questionnaire.

discntnt_irny_srcsm

(18,565 posts)

15. Here's a link...

Reply to SecularMotion (Original post)

Thu Oct 1, 2015, 11:15 AM

Oct 2015

...to the education group: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1124

...and trip here for your OP.

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