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
Booted from Facebook by GCA's. Kinda laughing about it.
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Beach Nut
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I have a profile on Facebook I set up for a class reunion but I never spend any
time there. I never check notifications or reply to any requests from other
users except to accept friend requests from people I am actually friends
with. I never post or chat with anyone there either. I am not a fan of
this website but my wife loves it!
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. It is a social network inhabited by
either those who are desperate for the fifteen minutes of fame they
never received or extroverts who have an inflated opinion of their self
worth and think the world cares about everything they do or say. I'm
not criticizing everyone who likes and uses Facebook, there are some good
people who like it but it is just not for me.
I do have a cynical view of this website, my best hunting buddy loves
it and is always posting deer that were taken on our hunting trips and
even made a request for places to hunt when he had a slow season
last year. I'm surprised he hasn't been targeted and attacked by PETA
or anti-gun groups. He put up several pictures of a range trip we took
last winter and I told him not to tag me in any of the photos. I just
feel like if you are constantly putting information out there on a website
like Facebook, you are just putting a bullseye on yourself and sometimes
the wrong people are paying attention to what you are doing.
time there. I never check notifications or reply to any requests from other
users except to accept friend requests from people I am actually friends
with. I never post or chat with anyone there either. I am not a fan of
this website but my wife loves it!
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. It is a social network inhabited by
either those who are desperate for the fifteen minutes of fame they
never received or extroverts who have an inflated opinion of their self
worth and think the world cares about everything they do or say. I'm
not criticizing everyone who likes and uses Facebook, there are some good
people who like it but it is just not for me.
I do have a cynical view of this website, my best hunting buddy loves
it and is always posting deer that were taken on our hunting trips and
even made a request for places to hunt when he had a slow season
last year. I'm surprised he hasn't been targeted and attacked by PETA
or anti-gun groups. He put up several pictures of a range trip we took
last winter and I told him not to tag me in any of the photos. I just
feel like if you are constantly putting information out there on a website
like Facebook, you are just putting a bullseye on yourself and sometimes
the wrong people are paying attention to what you are doing.
I got booted off FB quite a while ago. I tried to sign up again but could not. I now just direct any emails from them into spam. I have no idea why I got the boot. I never posted anything. Probably just my comments to others....chris3
vito
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I was criticized on Twitter for describing myself as a "patriot". I was called a "right wing fanatic". Very sad.
MachIVshooter
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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.
Arkansas Paul
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There are plenty of pro-2A pages on FB as well.
Check out "Cold Dead Hands'' if you get a chance. Great page.
Check out "Cold Dead Hands'' if you get a chance. Great page.
gdcpony
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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.
ColtPythonElite
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Delete Facebook....problem solved and life less complicated.
gdcpony
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Like I mentioned, I think you need to have a complaint filed on you first. I should start reporting some people then.
gdcpony
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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.
True anti's would have unfriended me a long time ago. After all, if it doesn't involve shooting, hunting, or riding I have little interest in it.
ultramag44
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To those patriots, 2nd amendment supporters or strict constitutionalists that have been kicked out off any social media and forgotten; take heart!
The you-know-who's have THEIR LIST. They will never delete or forget a name.
The you-know-who's have THEIR LIST. They will never delete or forget a name.
Tygarys
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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
Maybe if your daughter had something with wood other than all those evil black rifles they would be less scared!
gdcpony
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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!
Sorry about the glasses again. This was the same day.
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.
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.
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gdcpony
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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.
Grmlin
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gdcpony,
Did you flag the individual who made the threat against your kids?
While Facebook may have some good points, I think it would be nothing but trouble for me.
Did you flag the individual who made the threat against your kids?
While Facebook may have some good points, I think it would be nothing but trouble for me.
gdcpony
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Nope. I simply asked how they would do it without a firearm when...well you can see the first pic. I did look at their profiles, and my Cyber section (I'm a Technical Controller Chief) is going to turn their IT attention to them in their own way. They love my girls so I doubt they will be very pleasant towards them.
I may go back and do so though as it is a good idea. I just chose the Marine way I guess. Oops.
I may go back and do so though as it is a good idea. I just chose the Marine way I guess. Oops.
sherman123
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So sorry to hear this gdcpony it's a real shame. Reminds me of the folks threatening to kill NRA members shortly after Newtown. Although that kind of behavior has unfortunately occurred on both sides and those folks make us all look bad when they act like this.
Rockwolf66
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Take Heart gdcpony,
Mad Mike Williamson has been banned from Facebook at least 16 times by my count and several of us have gotten bans of varying lengths of time for stuff we have posted on his page. I know of two pages that have been reported so many times by GCA that they were deleted, but the pages got re-instated on appeal.
I got a 12 hour ban for posting something that sounded offensive but was really not. Sometimes I wish that someone would go through and ban the people who abuse the facebook report feature.
https://www.facebook.com/MichaelZWilliamson
Mad Mike Williamson has been banned from Facebook at least 16 times by my count and several of us have gotten bans of varying lengths of time for stuff we have posted on his page. I know of two pages that have been reported so many times by GCA that they were deleted, but the pages got re-instated on appeal.
I got a 12 hour ban for posting something that sounded offensive but was really not. Sometimes I wish that someone would go through and ban the people who abuse the facebook report feature.
https://www.facebook.com/MichaelZWilliamson
While working out yesterday I heard that Facebook was lifting all censorship from their site. The Newsman discussing it said it would make them more liable to do that. Perhaps you are no longer banned, take a look. I just happened, so maybe things changed, also they aren't screening photos anymore, even blood and gore.
I am always putting crap on FB & I never been kicked off, here check me out !..............
https://www.facebook.com/tom.woody.104
https://www.facebook.com/tom.woody.104
Blackstone
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A reminder about this story:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/201...gered-a-visit-from-nj-police-family-services/
In short, a photo of a boy holding a .22 AR-15 is posted on Facebook by his father. Someone calls social services, and the family get a visit by them, backed up by the local police.
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