Reddit is one of those places that most everyone on the internet knows about, but a lot of people don’t actually visit. It’s been around for a while, though, and it’s one of those enduring websites that didn’t die out like so many others have through the years.
After 20 years, one would think they’d be done making really stupid changes just to see what would stick, or anything else.
However, it seems one would be wrong.
After all, they’re removing subreddits that deal with buying and selling firearm accessories.
Reddit this week moved to shut down several large and popular buy/sell/trade subreddits revolving around gun accessories like optics and parts.
The publicly traded forum-style social media platform, which has over 100 million users, is set to debut a new and enhanced rule concerning gun accessory listings on Oct. 9. While the direct sale of controlled items such as guns and suppressors has always been banned on the site, the prohibition will be expanded to cover just about everything else gun-related. In short, “communities will not be permitted to allow user-to-user transactions involving any firearm parts or enhancements.”
In the days leading up to the rule announcement, Reddit reached out to moderators on popular accessory subreddits to warn them that the sub would be banned moving forward.
“Thanks to everyone that participated in the sub. We’re pretty bummed about this, too,” noted the mods on the r/PrsAccessoriesForSale sub.
Others like GAFS (r/GunAccessoriesForSale), which has 47,000 weekly visitors and has been around since 2018, said they are taking their community off Reddit, moving to a new website being set up by the mods, and will keep operating on Discord for now.
This is a rule that only targets gun parts and accessories, which means it’s not something that’s just meant to end sales or trades across the board. That might not be great, but at least it’s a decision that’s based on something other than anti-gun animosity.
As it stands, though, this is just Reddit showing the entire world just how much they despise guns in general.
See, if gun control works, then selling someone a scope or a new trigger group isn’t going to make anyone less safe. It’s only for people who already have guns, after all, or will be getting a gun at some point in the future. If gun control works, that’s only going to be law-abiding folks.
So either Reddit is admitting that gun control doesn’t work, or they’re just lashing out at anyone who owns a gun.
There’s really not any middle ground that I can see.
Gun accessories are useless without guns. They aren’t restricted by the federal government and aren’t restricted at the state level, either, with perhaps some rare cases involving a particular item.
And they’re removing subreddits that are about trading those in some manner between ostensibly lawful gun owners.
It’s not about bad guys. It’s never been about bad guys. It’s about keeping you from having ready access to things that might make your life as a gun owner that much more enjoyable.
It’s about treating gun owners as pariahs.
They want you as alienated as they can manage, pushing us deeper and deeper into the darkness. They just hate that they can’t completely isolate us.
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