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Reddit Bans Subreddit Dedicated To Finding Navy Yard Shooters

Posted by Unknown on from the saving-us-all-from-armchair-detectives dept.

Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "Reddit became a gathering place for amateur sleuthing in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing earlier this year, fueling what some reports called 'online witch hunts' that resulted in some people being falsely identified as the bomber. Now Andrea Peterson reports at the Washington Post that a section on the popular online community for finding the Navy Yard shooters has been banned. 'We banned it because it violated site rules by encouraging the posting of personal information,' says Erik Martin from reddit. The shooting at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday morning left at least 12, including a gunman dead. But police say there may be another suspect at large, and they 'have reason to believe' this individual was involved in shootings."

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  1. Please Leave the Gun Rights Debate Out Of This by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is a story about reddit, l predict the usual anti-gun nuts will come out of the woodwork with their gun control agenda.

    This is plainly offtopic and should be discouraged by modding all threads down.

    Keep it ontopic folks, otherwise you are hijacking the conversation and violating slashdot policy.

    1. Re:Please Leave the Gun Rights Debate Out Of This by cheater512 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Can someone please mod this nut offtopic?

    2. Re:Please Leave the Gun Rights Debate Out Of This by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Notice how civilised countries that dont have hundreds of millions of guns in the hands of people dont have the long line of gun massacres? And are safer in general with less crime in general? So what is wrong with the picture here, or is it the USA is just fucked up?

    3. Re:Please Leave the Gun Rights Debate Out Of This by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      oppression comes in many forms. Preventing the right of people to defend themselves from folks who don't care what the law says... well, that's even more fucked up than what you're describing.

    4. Re:Please Leave the Gun Rights Debate Out Of This by bhcompy · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      Civilized countries like Switzerland, where almost everyone has an assault rifle at home at one time or another and has an option to take a fire arm home for free from the government after their mandatory military service? That country is pretty goddamn civilized.

    5. Re:Please Leave the Gun Rights Debate Out Of This by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Preventing the right of people to defend themselves from folks who don't care what the law says... well, that's even more fucked up than what you're describing.

      yeah because that's worked out so well! do you carry a gun everywhere just in case there is a shooting massacre? what sort of fucked up hick wants to live in a society (pretty loose use of the term in this context) where everybody is carrying a deadly weapon and trained to kill? the best trained with the biggest gun will be the one left standing.

    6. Re:Please Leave the Gun Rights Debate Out Of This by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You would think that, and yet it is illegal to lay a simple minefield around my house to keep myself and my loved ones safe from criminals who don't care about the law. My guns are all well and good, but I have to sleep some time, and my guns aren't always with me, so I could easily be caught unprepared.

      I'm also not allowed to have a single trifling little anti-aircraft missile system or iron dome system to protect my family in my own home. And yet any criminal who doesn't obey the law is perfectly free to lob mortars into my house willy-nilly.

      And, get this, the oppressive state forces me to drive my loved friends and relatives around in a tin can car which has no reactive armor, no 120mm smoothbore cannon, and not even a 50 cal machine gun mounted on top of it. How could I possibly protect my family if some criminals who don't obey the law just decided to attack my car that is utterly defenseless thanks to the oppressive state?

      Such oppressive bullshit. The state is practically patronizing me by allowing me to have a few pea shooters. They're basically saying "if the criminals who don't care about breaking the laws launch a full scale amphibious and aerial invasion of your property, then you may have a gun to shoot your family and loved ones with before turning on yourself, before the enemy can rape and torture and kill you all."

    7. Re:Please Leave the Gun Rights Debate Out Of This by halivar · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      This is getting tedious. America has had more guns than people since Euros first stepped foot on it 500 years ago. If guns haven't turned the US into a lawless Mad Max apocalyptic wasteland by now, chances are it isn't going to anytime soon.

      Oh wait you mean the real solution is too hard so you have to have to run and hide under so called gun rights?

      And WTF does it even mean to "run and hide" under gun rights? This is histrionic babble.

    8. Re:Please Leave the Gun Rights Debate Out Of This by Oligonicella · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      How dare you criticize such a well thought out and rational point of argument?