Geez!!!
This is a really great forum attached to a really great website attached to really great TV and radio, all of which advance, promote, and celebrate our 2nd amendment rights as well as our passion for our firearms. Being a gun lover is controversial and we all have a responsibility to ourselves and those who share our interests to protect and promote our views. People other than ourselves read these threads to see what we're all about, and I'm sure they see a lot more good than they thought they'd find.
So why be IRRESEPONSIBLE to yourself and those who share your interests by posting rants or insisting on a right to post rants that will discolor our beliefs or even draw attention from facists. (Not that anyone has gone that far- I'm not the judge of that) It's not about freedoms, it's about common sense. If you stand out on the street corner yelling to your neighbor that you think that any of the presidential candidates should be shot...well, see how long that lasts.
I love this forum and particpate in it because it's my BEST resource for visiting with people who love something I love. I can get in a political argument anywhere any time. I don't need to come here to do that, and I don't need to come here to test the limits of my right to free speech or anything else. So if some lines of discussion could cause a problem, I say DON'T TALK ABOUT IT because I would much rather restrict my subjects of discussion than lose the benefits of the great organization that MB and the Marshalls have set up here for us all.
Like I said, it's common sense, and my feeling is if you want to rant about something that could cause a problem for our hosts, do it somewhere else.