Man Starts 'Gunbook' Social Media Site After His Gun-Loving Friends Were Kicked Off Facebook (buzzfeed.com)

CaptainDork shares a report from BuzzFeed: A British gun enthusiast whose friends were banned from Facebook for posting pictures of firearms has started his own version of the site for gun lovers. Called Gunbook, it was set up by David Scott, a 57-year-old shooting instructor who lives in Kilsyth, 20 miles from Dunblane. It went live three weeks ago and he says it already has more than 1,000 members, around 60 of whom are from the U.S. Scott admitted that part of the attraction of the site for members was that they could post about their love of deadly weapons without being judged by family and friends. "Quite a lot want to talk about guns and shooting and target shooting and their families can see and often people comment. Gunbook is the place where people can talk about guns without their families seeing because a lot of people have got anti-shooting and anti-hunting friends on these sites."

Many of the profile pictures on the site show people standing in striking poses with guns -- or are simply a picture of their arsenal. And just like any other social media platform, much of the content that has quickly populated the Facebook clone ends up being videos and memes. In contrast, his site is loosely controlled and encourages a community around gun ownership. It has two admins but reassures users in a Q&A on the site that "they will generally just leave you all to get on with things." It adds later that "they will never interfere [in a group] unless a post gets reported and even then only racist and really dodgy ones will get looked at if reported. Please do NOT upload porn videos to our servers though ;0."

Comments

Re:Gun advocates heads explode

[brennz]

Enforcing training requirements, "licensing", ever increasing levels of background checks, are all a slippery slope on a path towards removal of gun rights.

For those of us with military, or police experience, asking us to "certify" when we've fired tens of thousands of rounds, and, or, ran ranges, is a step in futility.

Not going to do it.

idk

[Ryanrule]

sounds a little gay to me.

Re:How to get SHOT 101

[NicknameUnavailable]

Like Hell. Between the dark ages culling free thinkers, the AU colonization deporting independent individuals, and the US colonization deporting people who had different societal norms the British selectively bred themselves into a sub-Human abomination of Humanity comprised of a two-class system with an arrogant and incompetent ruling class mixed with a submissive and incompetent lower class. The British stopped being Human, that's why they lost their empire and continue to allow colonization of their homeland by foreigners who will never assimilate while trying to accommodate that lack of assimilation at the expense of their own people - ironically like some foolhardy attempt to regain some semblance of their long-gone Humanity by taking on an equally controllable but equally useless extreme. Their ruling class will fight to the end to retain control at any cost, and by the time they reach the end the population they rule over will be so different from them that they themselves will have no safe harbor or means of control.

Re:How to get SHOT 101

[Archangel Michael]

Someone's "minor crime" is another person's last penny. But that's okay, when criminals have more rights than their victims. And the typical passivist mentality of victimhood is empowering those criminals.

I cringe every time I see a mother crying over a dead son, whose only crime is pulling a gun on a cop. "they could have tazed him, they didn't have to kill him".