Arkansas Paul
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Check out my background photo. I like it, but many on FB don't have a clue what it means.
https://www.facebook.com/paul.gann.1
https://www.facebook.com/paul.gann.1
The advertisements I see on my wife's Facebook site when she is online
were enough to tell me that gun posts and Second Amendment support
was not welcome on this website.
I don't know about loose. I think it depends on if they get a "report" on you. I am pretty sure the GCA's didn't like me posting links to FBI tables, news stories that went against their beliefs, and just plain refusing to get into personal insults. Just because I dislike the administrators of a page, doesn't mean I can't convince a lurker on the fence toward trying out shooting. So I keep it clean and as polite as I can with them.The advertisements you see are catered by adaptive software; If it believes your wife is looking at a lot of things anti-gun people look at, it will send her those kind of ads. I get all kinds of ads from hobby stores and companies on mine because I visit quite a lot of RC websites.
As for FB being anti-gun, that may well be (probably is) true, but I've had no issues posting pro-gun, pro-liberty, anti-Democrat, anti-Obama propaganda. In fact, propagandizing is pretty much all I use it for, other than the occasional funny picture or those text message fails.
Not defending FB at all, just saying that if you stay within the guidelines (which are really pretty loose as far as what you can and can't post), you should have no issues, and it can be a useful tool for us.
I have a few that are close to anti, and try to convince me to be more "moderate" in my stance. Thankfully, we are able to see past that and agree to disagree every time a discussion comes up. At least so far.I have deleted some FB "friends" because of their anti-gun stance...I guess they weren't friends to begin with...
Well, I managed to get blocked from Facebook for a day!
I was getting messages from some GCA's and decided to post some facts on their own page. I even put up a couple pics of my kids shooting and my daughter's essay (http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=696101) for them to counter, or try to. Nothing insulting mind you as that is not my way. Well, I guess I offended someone enough that they reported a post of mine. I can't get to it again, but it was reply to someone who posted that gun companies were dancing on the graves of the Newtown victims. I replied that it was the GCA groups that were by using the tragedy to push their agenda. I guess that was a violation.
Of course through the course of these exchanges I had my kids threatened- to which I asked how they were going to carry out those threats? With a spoon? I was flat out told that the facts didn't matter because they weren't relevant. Finally, I guess I got something right because next weekend I am taking a lady out shooting with my kids who unliked a GCA page she had been in favor of. I'll give up a day of hunting for that.
The photos I posted for them:
My daughter's collection
My younger daughter on a .243.
And the crown jewel, my oldest on the rifle she is using for deer this year my .308 AR
Think this one will scare them? I love laminated stocks, but as you can tell, I am the only one in the family that does.Maybe if your daughter had something with wood other than all those evil black rifles they would be less scared!
I was banned for a response to a GCA comment. I have only been harassed by other users about my own pics and what I post independently.I haven't seen anything specifically anti-gun on Facebook and there are lots of pro-gun pages there too. Doesn't seem to me that Facebook itself has a stance one way or the other. Or if they are blatantly anti-gun, they're pretty tolerant about it.
There are some groups on Facebook that are NOT tolerant of diverging views, but that's up to the administrators of those groups. But friends have posted pics of me shooting or of themselves shooting with me. They always get more excited about it than I do. I've been indirectly responsible for about a dozen profile pics with people posing with various guns. No one's ever been banned or asked to change their pics.
The pic below was my profile pic for awhile. DSA STG-58 that we were giving a workout at my friend's camp. It appeared in lots of pics that day, mostly because even the people I know who grew up around guns had never handled "the right arm of the free world" before. And the new shooters... they were captivated.
GDC, don't get me wrong -- you're doing NOTHING wrong. Totally cool with kids shooting. Unfortunately, the child protective services doesn't work that way. The chain goes like this: 1) some GCA/anti (whom you don't know) sees your photos online, 2) the GCA/anti calls child protective services and says, "There's a guy who's letting his kids play with guns.", 3) state agency comes to your house and takes your kids away until you can prove that they were never in harm's way. With child protective services, it's always guilty until proven innocent.