"Gabrielle Giffords Gun Control Super PAC Raises $6.5 Million"

[Robb]

42. Incorrect. The current count of people blocked is 40.

There are only 23 active members blocked from this group. The rest were banned from DU by admin or MIRT at some point after they were blocked here, so you can perhaps imagine how we feel our own process of blocking disruptive members is effective and useful.

In the event you do not have access to the hosts forum, and in the interest of transparency, they were:

Remmah2
markeybrown
skinnytrees
WinniSkipper
Peter cotton
holdencaufield
Trunk Monkey
dklo
Family Man
slackmaster
CokeMachine
DemDealer
JohnnyBoots
supernaut
grok
MalcomInTheMiddle
ceonupe

There are many DU gun owners who have not been blocked from this group. Those gun owners support the SOP of this group, e.g. broadly speaking they support gun safety legislation and progressive gun control groups. This is not complicated; we don't want to debate whether gun safety legislation is a worthwhile goal, we want to discuss ways to accomplish it.

I'm happy to hear you support UBC. In this group we're seeking to examine ways to get this and other gun safety legislation efforts passed at the state and federal level. Not whether those efforts are worthwhile, because we all feel they are. If we have to spend all our time defending that, we cannot discuss implementing; those who make us do so, here, are disruptive.

Finally, I had to chuckle that you complained we wanted a protected group to discuss a particular viewpoint, then complained you weren't adequately protected from it elsewhere. Perhaps you should ask admin for a protected pro-gun group, if you weren't being intentionally ironic.