Stay out of GD if you value your sanity.

[AllegroRondo]

I made the mistake of posting in a thread about gun control. WHY WHY WHY???

[Left Is Write]

1. I've tackled the subjects of abortion, free speech, capital punishment,

prison reform, voting rights...

Gun control is one subject I REFUSE to get involved in!

:scared:

[Kajsa]

2. Put on an reinforced flamesuit,

take a deep breath, and remember,

some people will argue with anyone over anything.

Sometimes they agree with you and they're still arguing!

:-)

[NightWatcher]

3. been there, done that, barely survived

[Bunny]

4. No guts, no glory.

[blondeatlast]

12. WORD!

:thumbsup:

[KG]

5. it's fun! snark on the loons, then ignore their replies!

it's easy when somebody implies i could kill 32 people on a college campus with a pack of marlboros. :eyes:

[jakefrep]

6. I've found that to be a wise strategy....

....since one cannot buy asbestos underwear anymore.

[zanne]

7. You could hide out in the Lounge forever...

But if you did that, why bother coming to DU at all?

[undeterred]

8. Stay out of the one about John Edwards Haircut

chock full of righteous liberal passion

[NoPasaran]

17. I heard John Edwards grabbed someone's gun while getting a haircut

:hide:

[undeterred]

18. yes, but he was going to give it to the poor man next door

[NoPasaran]

24. Wasn't that last week's flamewar?

http://www.newsobserver.com/114/story/562899.html

[undeterred]

26. John Edwards: His house is too big, his hair is too nice, his wifes cancer

is a too convenient, and his neighbor is too republican.

[skygazer]

9. If I had any sanity, I wouldn't still be interested in politics

Only the crazy can keep this up this long. :silly:

[ronnykmarshall]

10. AGAIN??

I was in the middle of it yesterday. Made m'self a new rival! I'm so proud!

[johnnie]

23. I saw that one

It was the one laugh I had all day..lol. Thanks Ronny, that was funny.

[Bassic]

11. It does seem to turn a lot of people into idiots.

Even reading them makes me go nuts.

[Deep13]

13. Suppose I haven't got any sanity left?

[Forkboy]

14. I feel more comfortable in there than in here.

Seriously.

I need help.

[texanwitch]

15. I want to start one about duck or duct tape in GD.

That would be a good thread.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

16. It's not worth going there. Too many gun threads

You can post anything you want and not get flamed. Everybody's posting, but nobody's reading.

Like an old Monty Python skit about an "argument room".
That's not arguing, that's contradicting
T'isn't
T'is

[Reverend_Smitty]

19. I've pretty much spent the last two days in there...

and I'm done, it seems like there is no way to have a civil discourse in there at all. Even when I vehemently disagree with someone, I try to stay polite. Something about the faceless nature of the internet that allows people to be assholes to one another. Quick someone start a thread about kittens and puppies to lower my blood pressure!

[Oeditpus Rex]

20. It's drifted into the Lounge, too

[LSK]

21. meh, its not THAT bad

I thought it would be much worse. I was sitting it out earlier this week thou.

[TZ]

22. yeah its kooky

Yesterday there was like 36 threads alone on the front page about Va Tech/guns/violence/mental health. It seems a lot of people are using this really sad event to push agendas..:( :scared:

[likesmountains 52]

25. What I learned in GD yesterday re: Va Tech Shootings: Cho was either

bipolar or depressed or schizophrenic or abused as a child or had been sexually abused, was on anti-depressants, or wasn't but should have been...I also learned that if everyone carried a concealed weapon only one or two people would have died..Yes, if you value your sanity stay in the lounge for a few more days!

[Gormy Cuss]

27. Too late.

There are some, er, interesting combatants in some of those threads.

[Esra Star]

28. Why? Because it needs to be said over and over.

The society you live in needs to be a civil society.
The shootout at the OK corral was not acceptable then.
It is not acceptable now.
The peace of the graveyard is a worthless peace.
Cheers

[crim son]

29. My heart literally begins to pound with anger and frustration

just reading the threads on guns, gun control and why it's important for all of us to be armed at all times. :sarcasm:

[BlueIris]

30. Even I can't go in there tonight.

I just have this...feeling it's about as ugly as it's ever been. I don't want to get banned or fry my blood pressure.

[salin]

31. It can be brutal.... but once you get your 'sea legs' there

it can be a very interesting forum. But til one is no longer the 'feint of heart' per GD, it might be wise to stay out of the 'topic de jour' (the one that has dozens of threads on the topic). I love the GD - but had to "learn it" before I got could get a lot out of participating in the GD.

[KG]

32. it's even more fun when you give up trying to point out the obvious to the willfully obtuse.

:hi:

[salin]

33. Indeed!

And that can be a frustrating lesson to learn. :hi:

[AlCzervik]

34. there are a couple are interesting threads over there, 2 in particular from one

poster that i've been following and there are many good posts in both and lots of ridiculous nonsense as well.

[GenDem]

35. This one was my Redeemer

A little respite for those that need to be reminded of what we are really all about here.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x683224

[Elidor]

36. GD has totally made a monkey out of me lately.

I need an intervention. I will write a hundred times on the blackboard, "I will not get mad about anything in GD, no matter how incredibly fucking stupid some turdburger decides to be."