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Financial ties between gun manufacturers and airsoft guns
- sarcasmatwork 7y agoVice has gone downhill. I do not respect them anymore. Is vice blaming Hollywood for promoting violence or using guns in movies?? Nope..
- garlandkey 7y agoI thought we weren't supposed to editorialize titles here. Oh, wait...
- dang 7y agoEditorializing is when the submitter replaces an article's title with something to represent their personal point of view on the topic. turtlegrids didn't do that. The site guidelines do ask submitters to rewrite titles when they are misleading or linkbait. This one was, so it should be changed. The best place to find alternative titles is from a subtitle or subheading, the first paragraph, or some representative phrase from the article. I've changed the above title to part of the subtitle. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dvtrn 7y agoHalfway through reading this, I couldn't help myself from thinking back to my childhood, and having a father who refused to let me own a bright, colorful, yellow and neon-green Super Soaker 50 because, in his words "it's training kids on using guns and I wont have my son grow up to be a murderer", plus all sorts of histrionics from the 90's about how {video games | violent movies | hip-hop } are desensitizing kids to violence and turning us all into brutal psychopaths. He had diddly-squat to say when I enlisted in the military and went on to serve with the same unit he did in the 60's and 70's. Not sure what that says about me, my old man, or Vice, or the three of us, bit it was a powerful trip down an annoying stretch of memory lane.