"Trollishly Anti" sub-text - rather important
On point: I voted "No" and am still buying guns that I should have bought years ago - not at all time to sell. On top of that, I am training family and friends on use of firearms (mine), and, when it's time for any of them to own a gun of their own, and if I had any extra, I'd give away or sell cheaply to them.
Off point: I know Zundfolge is neither anti nor, intentionally, a troll. Just read his tag line link sometime:
http://www.nationalreview.com/kopel/kopel120501.shtml
But ZF's wording in the OP of this thread
your Monstrously High Powered Evil Black Rifles and Super Capacity Death Machine handguns
had me wondering whether or not to respond, for fear of falling into a troll's trap, even before I scrolled down as far as CoRoMo's comment. It had a "chilling effect", as liberals like to say, on my free expression. But I went away and thought about it and now I am back, thawed.
Thanks, CoRoMo, for calling ZF out, gently. As CoRoMo said in a follow-on post, the issue is not with ZF's personal credentials but the (unintended) effect of his words.
My new point: What CoRoMo did by flagging the effect of ZF's wording is a good thing, and, to my point, this is something that can only be rightly done by other members, not moderators. If a moderator were issuing troll challenges/warnings publicly, it really would be "chilling" and would (partly) play into the hands of the antis. When another member does so, it not only corrects the immediate "problem" but also raises the level of troll-vigilence and promotes care in selecting troll-proof posting and responding content. I think. I hope. (Still kinda a noob here.)