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It's all funny, but old dog has a valid point. "Their", "there" and "they're" is one big problem here, but there are more. "Your" and "you're" is another good example. Oh yeah, and "a lot" is actually2 wordswhile"alot" is not a real word at all.
Come on folks, I'm not even a native english speaker and it's oftenpainful for me to read some posts here. It really isn't all that hard to write these simple words right. I started learning English as a second language in5th grade of regular public school in Moscow, Russia back in 1991 and I never made these mistakes. It seems to me that folks who went to school in the US and are native english speakers, should really be able to get it right.
Not trying to come across as beingarrogant or anything, and not trying to offend anyone, just making a point. I also think it hurts our(gun owners and gun rights activists)imagewhen someone unrealted to gun communtiyreads some posts on this forum -these kinds ofmistakeswill just reinforce the image created by mainstream mediathat "all gun owners are a bunch of uneducated rednecks". The bottom line is that one doesn't need to be an English lagnuage professor to be able to spell these basics right.