Moms petition Facebook, Instagram to stop allowing gun sale ads

[SecularMotion]

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Jenn Lynch is just one of thousands of mothers in Oregon and more than 100,000 across the country signing the Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America petition, calling on Facebook and Instagram to prohibit gun sale advertisements on their sites.

Lynch says gun sales are not something she doesn’t want her kids stumbling across when going to sites like Instagram or Facebook with their friends.

Lynch, who is part of the Oregon chapter of Moms Demand Action, told KATU's Emily Sinovic, "This a family issue for us. This is a big issue for moms, and we feel like this is a public safety issue and a public health crisis."

The letter is addressed to the CEOs of Facebook and Instagram, asking them to follow in the footsteps of other websites like Ebay and Craigslist that do not allow private gun sales.

http://www.katu.com/news/local/Moms-petition-Facebook-Instagram-to-stop-allowing-gun-sales-247394261.html

[Lost_Count]

1. Won't someone think of the children?!

*Insert Helen Lovejoy here*

[pipoman]

2. Sounds contradictory

Lynch says gun sales are not something she doesn’t want her kids stumbling across 

[Dr Hobbitstein]

3. One problem...

eBay is an auction site that is directly involved in the sale of merchandise. Craigslist is a classified service that is self policed (which is why SO many ads labeled "home defense items" get by.

Facebook and Instagram do not sell anything. They are not classified ads. It's like demanding that Gmail stop allowing private sales of guns.

[ileus]

4. Don't search firearms and firearm ads won't appear.

[Duckhunter935]

5. What a bunch of idiots

Facebook and Instagram do not sell guns. Once again the hosts allow the gun topiic in GD and one of the biggest abusers of the GD SOP posts a link to a gun article in GD without comment. Hosts, as long as you allow this person to post articles clearly about guns at least ensure the poster has some kind of comment about said article or else I see this as just flamebait in GD.
The SOP for GD is now just about pointless on the gun issue and the poster knows this.

[onehandle]

6. Gungeoneers Attack!

Why do gun nuts hate mothers and children?

[Duckhunter935]

8. and who said that?

[Nuclear Unicorn]

9. But it's not lawful for children to buy guns.

If it's an issue about influences does she also demand displays of alcohol (4600 under aged drinking deaths annually) should be banned or depictions of glorified violence or music artists with objectionable content? What's the line?

[Eleanors38]

10. GD hosts: Has this "forum" become the anti-2A group writ large?

The big majority of OPs generated by 2A supporters are posted in RKBA, in accordance with GD's TOS. Yet the controller/banners have wide access to the forum, to the point of DUPLICATE posts.

DROP THE TOS so that those in RKBA can have a level playing field.

EXPLAIN YOUR POLICIES/DOCTRINES.

[CreekDog]

11. you don't want guns discussed in GD because gun control supporters outnumber you

any poster who mostly posts in RKBA and brags that they spend a lot of time posting pro-gun posts there while they barely post on non-gun issues in GD, and to the right if they do, should not be lecturing the rest of us here about how DU should be used.

most of us outside the RKBA group are using DU to support liberal and Democratic policies and politicians and when we aren't, we're generally to the left of them.

don't tell us that we're abusing DU. the Gungeoners are the ones that have posted more racially insensitive, more gender biased posts than any other group collectively.

[pintobean]

12. None of that justifies not locking this thread

and it's untrue. You're a host of GD. Why don't you explain the justifications for not locking this thread. The SOP for GD reads:

Discuss politics, issues, and current events. No posts about Israel/Palestine, religion, guns, showbiz, or sports unless there is really big news. No conspiracy theories. No whining about DU.

I don't see any exceptions carved out for who posts it, or what side of the argument the post supports. In fact, Skinner's pinned thread states "There are currently no special exceptions."

The idea is to keep gun arguments out of GD. It doesn't matter if CreekDog supports the post, or not. Your job as a host is to apply the rules evenly, not to use your position to regulate discussions.

[friendly_iconoclast]

14. There is *a* justification for not locking this thread, and it's been alluded to:

Which is not to say that I agree with it, btw...

[Eleanors38]

13. Getting past the repetitive junk, just drop the TOS.

Do you support that? Do you support "both sides" having equal access to GD?