[Yo Mama]

thread was closed mod stating it wasn't a highroad topic. I feel that THR is not only a place to get information, but a place to gather and gain support with life issues involving firearms.

This event is troubling to me. I come to THR to discuss this event, and the thread is already closed!

I normally am not this upset on a thread closing, but I felt this was important to bring more attention to allow discussion on this.

[Jeff White]

THR is not a news site where any story involving a firearm is on topic. We don't allow threads with no purpose. Right now there is not enough information available to have a reasonable discussion on this subject. It makes no sense to allow a thread that will be full of speculation and eventually religious bigotry to run.

Military posts are gun free zones. No CCW could have stopped this because nothing is going to change the policy of no CCW on post. Quite simply there is nothing to discuss about it that is on topic here.

[bigalexe]

The mods here do not know compassion or fairness and regularly fail to recognize that some issues warrant discussion or at least a sympathy thread. I suggest you either leave THR or realize that if the mods dont like the news story then its not getting a thread.

[Robert]

The mods here do not know compassion or fairness and regularly fail to recognize that some issues warrant discussion or at least a sympathy thread.
The rules are simple. If you do not like the rules then go somewhere else and complain about how horrible their mods are. THR is not a clearing house for all the horrible things that happen in life. The goals and mission are clearly stated. If a thread is out side of those parameters then I see no reason to keep it open.

[rbernie]

The mods here do not know compassion or fairness and regularly fail to recognize that some issues warrant discussion or at least a sympathy thread.Compassion is not shown by opening a thread up about the event and dancing in the blood of the victims to further a poltical agenda, or chest-thumping about how things should have been 'had only XXX or YYY been allowed to be'. Yet that is exactly what happens in Internet forums on both sides of the RKBA fence when these kinds of terrible events occur.

I'm sure that everyone that just read that is thinking to themselves, 'But I wouldn't do that!'.... And maybe not. But we've been through all of this before, and frankly the majority of these kinds of threads couldn't muster an ounce of compassion out of a metric ton of postings. We're strictly and squarely on The High Road. We don't do that.

There will be plenty of time to reflect on the nature of this event in the coming days.

[Geno]

Moderators:

Thank-you all for not allowing THR to become an electronic version of The National Enquirer.

Carry on,

Geno

[Yo Mama]

I appreciate mod and user comments.

[hso]

One of the problems with "discussing" fast breaking stories like this as they occur is the absolute lack of information and the overwhelming quantity of conjecture. Until there's some sort of parsing of fact from fiction (it took until this morning for enough detail to discuss other than what everyone knew at the first report "shooting at Ft. Hood with fatalities and injuries") it's all conjecture.

OTOH, there is an interesting point made by a soldier/member that was locked down at Ft. Hood yesterday in that the internet provided more information than they were provided by news or by command sources, but the reliability of the information was suspect. Quantity and quality don't always equate.