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This article is absolutely appropriate for HN, had an active, engaged, and non-hostile comment section, and SHOULD NOT have been banned/flagged as inappropriate
by erichocean 10y ago
This article is absolutely appropriate for HN, had an active, engaged, and non-hostile comment section, and SHOULD NOT have been banned/flagged as inappropriate. We are all worse off because it was.
I strongly suspect that those hitting the "flag" button did so on ideological grounds, in order to shut down discussion they did not approve of.
- brudgers 10y agoI didn't flag it and I am participating in it and I don't think it's a good Hacker News discussion. Gun control, assault rifles, the AR15, etc. are all topics covered by the US mainstream media. I've seen them regularly since Hinkley shot Reagan and James Brady became a high profile casualty. I'm too young to know much about how it was before that. Maybe two weeks ago, it might have been a "better" story. Today, it's not unreasonable to read it as someone's reaction to the events in Orlando and to judge a love song to the firearm used there in poor taste. Even if that was not the author's intention.