Guns in profile pictures

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Boba Fett said:
Even the hunting photos though, it's traumatic. Even as an adult and animal lover, I hate seeing them and I don't care what anyone says, it's disrespectful to pose with their corpse and if they want to take photos, thats on them but they dont have the self awarenessor courtesy to realize (FB for instanc) their family and friends may not want to see them posing with a bloody animal on their profile photo. It also leaves open the option for certain animals that are approved by the governmentof that country to hunt. FB had people trolling cat meme groups with hunters posing with feral cats theyve killed in Australia. One guy In Singles spams photos of him draining the blood, guttibg and then skinning his kills. No one wants to see that.
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little known fact mainly because people laugh. i have a fear of game pictures, game meat, hunting and taxidermy... it started with deer heads. so i know full well the trauma. it stops ME from visiting museums, hunting, hearing hunting stories, looking at prized deer and having said prized deer on display in my house and owning guns. and i come from a family of hunters. i had to give it to god so to speak and turn purple jr over to someone else to teach him and take him out to do it every year. just because it stops ME doesnt mean i have to stop it from EVERYONE.

when i say i have a fear my brother in laws prized deer head hunts me down in my sleep, to watch me sleep. when i wake in my dream he talks to me. its a terrifying reoccurring dream. there is no animal too small. i lost it and all the contents of my stomach once over a case of dead butterflies.

ps. your post triggered me to the point that i cannot get up from my chair and walk to the dark kitchen for fear of dead deer heads... this is how serious mine is. 🤣
 
purplerose said:
little known fact mainly because people laugh. i have a fear of game pictures, game meat, hunting and taxidermy... it started with deer heads. so i know full well the trauma. it stops ME from visiting museums, hunting, hearing hunting stories, looking at prized deer and having said prized deer on display in my house and owning guns. and i come from a family of hunters. i had to give it to god so to speak and turn purple jr over to someone else to teach him and take him out to do it every year. just because it stops ME doesnt mean i have to stop it from EVERYONE.

when i say i have a fear my brother in laws prized deer head hunts me down in my sleep, to watch me sleep. when i wake in my dream he talks to me. its a terrifying reoccurring dream. there is no animal too small. i lost it and all the contents of my stomach once over a case of dead butterflies.

ps. your post triggered me to the point that i cannot get up from my chair and walk to the dark kitchen for fear of dead deer heads... this is how serious mine is. 🤣
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I'm so sorry. Ok, I feel bad now for thinking of the Ace Ventura 2 scene...I think you know what I mean and I won't say anymore because despite you laughing at the end, it's still serious trauma so I won't post it or go into detail.

You definitely run the risk of causing trauma at an early age with hunting. I think the same thing of the military. Not everyone is fit to serve, but the problem with that is the stigma (we've seen it thrown at me by someone because I said I tried to serve but couldn't be allowed to if I wanted to continue taking my medication for my a.d.d.) that it makes them weak. There's a lot of reconditioning and desensitizing in training and what happens on the battlefield. He'll, we even see police officers who can't handle the mental stress that comes with the badge but it's only addressed after the cop breaks the law or takes a life in a situation that was poorly mishandled.
 
Boba Fett said:
I'm so sorry. Ok, I feel bad now for thinking of the Ace Ventura 2 scene...I think you know what I mean and I won't say anymore because despite you laughing at the end, it's still serious trauma so I won't post it or go into detail.

You definitely run the risk of causing trauma at an early age with hunting. I think the same thing of the military. Not everyone is fit to serve, but the problem with that is the stigma (we've seen it thrown at me by someone because I said I tried to serve but couldn't be allowed to if I wanted to continue taking my medication for my a.d.d.) that it makes them weak. There's a lot of reconditioning and desensitizing in training and what happens on the battlefield. He'll, we even see police officers who can't handle the mental stress that comes with the badge but it's only addressed after the cop breaks the law or takes a life in a situation that was poorly mishandled.
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i laugh at the end because i am laughing , my adult self says its stupid, but my body says nope nope nope were gonna sit here with sweaty palms and your hoodie over your head so that it cannot eat your hair! because it always eats your hair 1st. in my case we dont know where mine came from. we'd always had a deer head. all of my family had heads there wasnt a place i went as a child that didnt have one but i know from as far back as my 1st memory that i was afraid. no one played nasty jokes or took it off the wall and ran at me with it. i just never could deal with it. my parents eventually took it off the wall and stored it locked in a crawl space i knew about. my uncles used to cover theirs with sheets if they knew i was coming over. when the subject turns to it at family functions i dont stop them and they dont stop talking about it. i just get up and leave. i still dont think a blanket rule is the right way to go despite my fear and feelings, because in the end they are mine.


ps. good news! the suns coming up. the kitchen will have a bit of light so i can then go turn on every light in there and make my breakfast 🤣
 
Boba Fett said:
Two different things. One is a fictional movie where adults play good vs bad whereas (what I'm against) a child holding a gun or putting up a photo makes them think it's a toy.

We already have adults not just on this site but everywhere who think guns are toys and status objects. Many of these people buy them for political reasons or because they're insecure and want to give their self image a boost....these are the people who end up becoming a statistic so why let kids do that?

I wasn't allowed toy guns, even the caps used in the Robocop toys that you'd put on their back and pull a trigger to emulate smoke and gun fire, were removed by my mom. We have too many people who are adults and just buy a gun but don't have the awareness, maturity and even the self control that's needed to own one. Most of these people on here who've posted guns aren't taught the importance not putting your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot.

If you allow kids to upload photos of video games and movie stars with guns, you'll leave a loop hole for kids to post actual guns and selfies and argue about some dweeb who had up a photo of a Call of Duty character.

I'm a gun owner but I've only discussed it when Snoogs, Infamous, RA threatened to come to my house and harm me, because that's why I own one = home defense. But I'm also well aware I would only announce I'm armed and wouldn't fire. Home defense doesn't mean kill. Kids? They don't see that. They just see it as something cool that can be used against bad guys but when you have kids who can't tell good from bad, you end up with people being harmed like what we see in school shootings.

Over all when guns are used in photos it's a symbol of violence and always put up as a threat in a dopey chat room like "you troll me, just remember, I have one of these". This site already has enough problems with predators and protecting kids. Let's not bring about another issue that harms kids.
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he used the rating, not me, just saying…

idolizing & glorifying guns isnt going anywhere, teenagers are already exposed to it, doing something like censoring pfp from having firearms is going to do so little to help this issue, leaving an impact that is absolutely miniscule on the grand scheme of things that such a decision might as well not even take place…

dangerous precedence demanding the banning of gun images, & discussions on medial platforms (social or other) bc then u would has to practically ban all multi-media on america from having visuals of firearms & that is an affront to the first amendment

i voted yes
 
babydolla said:
he used the rating, not me, just saying…

idolizing & glorifying guns isnt going anywhere, teenagers are already exposed to it, doing something like censoring pfp from having firearms is going to do so little to help this issue, leaving an impact that is absolutely miniscule on the grand scheme of things that such a decision might as well not even take place…

dangerous precedence demanding the banning of gun images, & discussions on medial platforms (social or other) bc then u would has to practically ban all multi-media on america from having visuals of firearms & that is an affront to the first amendment

i voted yes
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the 1st amendment doesnt apply to this website. it actually doesnt apply to any website that doesnt take FEDERAL U.S. funds or help.
 
Gun images are banned anyways from my understanding, but I've seen people use them in their pfp both in Gen and Singles. Don't know why posting a gun isn't allowed but the usual people are allowed to have them on their pfp. Maybe mids don't see them? I have no problem with hoodie, he does his own thing but he comes to mind and so does that guy in Gen who posts photos of his forearm veins. He had pics up of himself pointing a 9mm at his camera.
 
purplerose said:
the 1st amendment doesnt apply to this website. it actually doesnt apply to any website that doesnt take FEDERAL U.S. funds or help.
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If this site wanted to ban things for any reason, it's in their rights in terms of legality. If they wanted to ban furries, it's in their right, even if it's denying someone their rights. Of course that'd be an issue that may make it's way to social networking sites then beat writers but they'd be in their rights because it's a privately owned site on the internet with their own TS. Links are banned on here while not on other social networking sites, that's one example.
 
purplerose said:
the 1st amendment doesnt apply to this website. it actually doesnt apply to any website that doesnt take FEDERAL U.S. funds or help.
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yes i am aware of how the first amendment works, but im talking about how it being censored on media platforms will eventually extend into multimedia like movies, shows, games…

which is art protected as expression of hich is prorected under the 1st
 
babydolla said:
yes i am aware of how the first amendment works, but im talking about how it being censored on media platforms will eventually extend into multimedia like movies, shows, games…

which is art protected as expression of hich is prorected under the 1st
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IF that were to happen its a long ways off. and 1) may never make it out of committee based on lobbyists. 2) still only apply to those companies using united states federal funds or help.

(i really dont see how "Transformers 62 : Lets Fight Megatron Again" or "Call Of Duty 92 all zombies all the time", or "law and order season 300" will happen without the help from the us military's movie liaison, new york citys LE tv show department or leaked/given military ops or drills if they censor multimedia. they bring in millions a year and help promote the US programs)

reading credits really is eye opening, not just sitting there scrolling your phone waiting for Tony Stark to sit on top of a donut stand to eat a donut.




that however, is not here and now and not about a private website that takes no united states federal funds or help.
 
Inkandtatts said:
Me too.

Side point. Nowt wrong with getting these guns out
Man Flex GIF by Hollyoaks

but then again, these aren't designed to kill anyone
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@Boba Fett
Not quite the same age. however of course we had guns growing up. I mean I had a Davey Crockett complete outfit, I remember having the Rifleman's gun, Did not learn that the guy playing the Rifleman was gay.
As a child I knew that these were toy guns and not real. I knew enough to avoid real guns.
I think with the addition of video games has made this problem worse. Did you ever see the stuff on the Brony Killer> Dude's room was all My Little Pony. His story was heartbreaking because even as a young kid you knew he would kill others.
I know gun use in context. I have nothing against those that hunt. A bunch of kids at my high school had pick ups and rifles in the back window. None of them ever went to their truck got their rifle and shot anyone. We settled differences with our fists.
Guns need to be regulated there needs to be red flag laws.
 
BlackLivesMatter said:
@Boba Fett
Not quite the same age. however of course we had guns growing up. I mean I had a Davey Crockett complete outfit, I remember having the Rifleman's gun, Did not learn that the guy playing the Rifleman was gay.
As a child I knew that these were toy guns and not real. I knew enough to avoid real guns.
I think with the addition of video games has made this problem worse. Did you ever see the stuff on the Brony Killer> Dude's room was all My Little Pony. His story was heartbreaking because even as a young kid you knew he would kill others.
I know gun use in context. I have nothing against those that hunt. A bunch of kids at my high school had pick ups and rifles in the back window. None of them ever went to their truck got their rifle and shot anyone. We settled differences with our fists.
Guns need to be regulated there needs to be red flag laws.
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A lot of the problems also come from the parents who are not really involved in their children's lives. You gotta be proactive and if it means keeping an eye on them and even invading their privacy, so be it. Look at the woman being charged for her shooter son in Michigan. If Rittenhouse was guilty so would his parents, but thats another story. You don't give guns to kids, especially if they have a history of questionable behavior.
 
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