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  • rotor

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    Hope this is the right place. Had been a member of TexasCHLforum for quite a few years and today inquired about where some of the members had gone, specifically Bitter Clinger. I found he was banned. Why, he questioned the NRA. Now I am a long time supporter and financial donor to the NRA but certainly we know that something is going on there that may not be strictly kosher. Oliver North and Col. West have left them. Their board member and owner of TexasCHLforum will ban one if there are any negative comments about the NRA or even questions about Texas Law Shield. So here we are, I commented about it today, said to go ahead and ban me, my post was removed and I was banned from the site and don't really care. There were some brilliant people on the site and I will miss reading their intellectual posts. What really surprises me is that a site that is so open to the 2A has such a limit on the 1A, and I know that a forum owned and paid for by an individual doesn't have to give me free speech but one would think that the owner of that site, a man who has done so much for gun rights, would also be open to positive and negative comments about the NRA especially when so many prominent big "gun" names are also expressing doubts. You all know who I am talking about so I will not use names. rotor is no more at TexasCHLforum and I don't really care. Walking on eggshells all the time is not my cup of tea.

    I would not be surprised if that attorney, NRA board member and forum owner responds with comments that I was banned for "personal" attacks but that was not true. Anyone else treated similarly feel free to respond.
     

    V-Tach

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    Any forum that is privately owned will have restrictions and limitations of what speech they will tolerate....even here...

    Welcome to TGT!
     

    SQLGeek

    Muh state lines
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    Glad to have you. You may or may not recognize my name but I have significantly tapered off my time there.

    If you are in touch with Bitter Clinger, bring him over here too. :)
     

    sidebite252

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    I limit my social exposure or I try to. This is the only “gun” forum I’m a member of. Being a self proclaimed moderate these guys tolerate my fence riding ass very well and I learn a lot about more than just firearms & firearm safety. We all have one thing in common, we all support the 2nd Amendment. Period.

    Hell, the only people I’ve seen banned here were just assholes pure and simple. Fun to watch the occasional “troll” show up on TGT & get eaten alive. We can have a different opinion just try and be respectful. This is a good group.
     

    FireInTheWire

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    I limit my social exposure or I try to. This is the only “gun” forum I’m a member of. Being a self proclaimed moderate these guys tolerate my fence riding ass very well and I learn a lot about more than just firearms & firearm safety. We all have one thing in common, we all support the 2nd Amendment. Period.

    Hell, the only people I’ve seen banned here were just assholes pure and simple. Fun to watch the occasional “troll” show up on TGT & get eaten alive. We can have a different opinion just try and be respectful. This is a good group.
    Couldn't have said it better^^^^
     

    jordanmills

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    I'd significantly cut down my participation there a few years ago because of their habits of censorship and outright manipulating threads to make sure they came out "right" in the end (have you ever seen a thread disappear for a while to get "cleaned up" and then reappear but not say exactly what you remembered?).

    Apparently they banned me a few months ago, never said anything leading up to it, never said why. I guess it's because I dared to criticize the NRA and TSRA. Thinking about it, I just realized that it might have been when someone asked about the TSRA's support for bills, I said they had definitely claimed their membership didn't want something in the past, someone said no way that's not right, and I posted part of an email I got from Alice Tripp saying exactly what I claimed. I'm sure that's all been "cleaned up".
     

    rotor

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    Thank you all for your responses. I don't know where Bitter Clinger is or who he is except that he was a poster that I liked reading. I also like The Annoyed Man (TAM) and don't know if he is here. I joined the TexasCHLforum in 2012 when I was getting started in concealed carry. If I wanted to be dictated to though I don't have to go too far as I am married (happily in case the wife sees this). I don't need Mr. NRA board member telling me what to do though. Glad to be here.
     
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