ShadowOfTheHat
Regular Member
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Hey guys,
I lurk here more than I post, but I haven't started OC'ing yet, so maybe I'll be more active once I start. I'm still in the waiting period to get my Purchase Permit.
In any case, I frequent another gun forum and one of their rules is that poster's use proper grammer and punctuation, and refrain from using any form of swearing. When I first read this, I thought, "How snooty is this place." But then I read their reasoning and it a good deal of sense.
The Internet is wide open, and anyone can read our posts. What better place for anti's to gather info, or someone wanting to do research on gun owner's, than a gun forum. In our attempt to preserve our rights, we should work to dispel the beer-swillin' redneck gun-toting misperception a lot of anti's have about us. As all they get here are our typed words and use of the language, it would go a long way toward dissolving that perception if we did take the time to use good grammer, proofread our posts and think of better ways to express ourselves than by swearing.
Just something to think about.
Dave
Hey guys,
I lurk here more than I post, but I haven't started OC'ing yet, so maybe I'll be more active once I start. I'm still in the waiting period to get my Purchase Permit.
In any case, I frequent another gun forum and one of their rules is that poster's use proper grammer and punctuation, and refrain from using any form of swearing. When I first read this, I thought, "How snooty is this place." But then I read their reasoning and it a good deal of sense.
The Internet is wide open, and anyone can read our posts. What better place for anti's to gather info, or someone wanting to do research on gun owner's, than a gun forum. In our attempt to preserve our rights, we should work to dispel the beer-swillin' redneck gun-toting misperception a lot of anti's have about us. As all they get here are our typed words and use of the language, it would go a long way toward dissolving that perception if we did take the time to use good grammer, proofread our posts and think of better ways to express ourselves than by swearing.
Just something to think about.
Dave