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Rugged individualism? This shooting happened in the middle of San Francisco.

Your post is nonsensical Ayn Rand crap. You know what? She was a bad writer, her conclusions were all wrong, and in the end she cashed in her Social Security checks just like everyone else proving her own hypocrisy.

In almost all meaningful ways Australians were living in the sticks more than Americans, and they had plenty of guns on the frontier, and now for the most part they don't because they're civilized.

What you're defending is not individualism, but romanticism for a bygone era where the motto was you're either quick or you're dead. It's not ruggedness, it's an irrational fearful white bunny rabbit gun nut culture.

I grew up in a family with guns: shotguns. Not handguns or assault weapons, both of which are for killing people.

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This comment breaks the site guidelines noticeably worse than others in the thread. Please don't post ideological rants here and please edit out the name-calling.

You've done this a ton and we've given you a ton of warnings. Eventually this leads to getting banned, so would you please (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use this site as intended from now on?

There is zero name calling in this post. Only contra positions to glittering generalities that try to paint dementedness as handsomeness.

I've received three warnings in the years I've posted hundreds of times. That is not in any rational way a ton. You are the only person who has ever picked on any of my posts. None of the posts you've ever complained about have had more than -2 karma at the time of the complaint and this one was at 0.

Your position amounts to bullying: you are in a position of power, you cite vague guidelines and each time I've asked exactly which guideline and in what manner it's a violation you refused to answer. This is a might makes right tactic. I refuse to accept it as fair, or just, or right. And itself is inconsistent with those same guidelines.

There will only be more challenges to such an absurd coddling of discourse that necessarily arise from highly charged events. There will be more such events. They will be even more ideological. That's why they occur and why people want to talk about them.

When people post nonsense, I have always seen enough downvotes by the community to render such opinions moot by their invisibility. I see no purpose or logic in your claim.

I have never opened a throw away account. This is my only account. All your threat does is tell me that was the actual mistake.

"Nonsensical Ayn Rand crap" and "irrational fearful white bunny rabbit gun nut" count as name calling in the sense that the site guidelines use the term. As for previous warnings, here are some:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13513215

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14224942

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14668018

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15479044

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15763025

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15847807

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16232868

That's a rather shocking level of abuse of this site and ignoring of moderation requests. If you don't correct this and abide by the site rules from now on, we're going to ban you. I'm sorry if that feels like bullying; it's routine moderation, and we've already cut you a ton of slack, as the linked comments make clear.

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