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  • #46
    glockwise2000
    Veteran Member
    • Sep 2008
    • 2532

    Really? Avatars?

    If we are going to get rid those kind of avatars, we might as well get rid of guns and just ignore our 2A as if it wasn't created. IMHO.
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    • #47
      biker777
      Senior Member
      • Jul 2009
      • 1408

      They should ban threads like this, why would anyone even start a silly thread like this?????

      I hope no rice rocket rider gets offended by my Harley avatar!!

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      • #48
        ChrisTKHarris
        Veteran Member
        • Sep 2009
        • 4203

        ibtl
        Don't let the name fool you...

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        • #49
          Juice5610
          Senior Member
          • Feb 2009
          • 1558

          WTF was the original post I missed it

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          • #50
            tacticalcity
            I need a LIFE!!
            • Aug 2006
            • 10916

            It was a suggestion to ban avatars "promoting or dipciting the criminal use of firearms". The op used an example of an avatar that showed one of the robbers from the movie HEAT wearing a hockey mask and holding a GAU-5 (USAF carbine length M16 variant rifle).

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            • #51
              roc
              Senior Member
              • Jan 2009
              • 1021

              Originally posted by tacticalcity
              It was a suggestion to ban avatars "promoting or dipciting the criminal use of firearms". The op used an example of an avatar that showed one of the robbers from the movie HEAT wearing a hockey mask and holding a GAU-5 (USAF carbine length M16 variant rifle).
              please do not do this. lets not pick and choose which constitutional amendment we support. if we like number 2, lets support number 1 as well.

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              • #52
                sevensix2x51
                Veteran Member
                • Sep 2009
                • 3835

                I think we should ban avatars depicting old country singers in their younger days... is that really the message we want to send to outsiders?

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                • #53
                  Two Shots
                  Senior Member
                  • Mar 2007
                  • 2022

                  Originally posted by Captain Cogle
                  I wonder who is offended here by my Avatar.... Are any of you English? Naw, I seriously doubt any one here gets it or even knows who that is.

                  Is that Thomas Paine?
                  "I have a love interest in every one of my films - a gun."
                  - Arnold Schwarzenegger

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                  • #54
                    freonr22
                    I need a LIFE!!
                    • Dec 2008
                    • 12945

                    Originally posted by freonr22
                    I am ignorant, what is "criminal" about the avatar?
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                    Originally posted by dantodd
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                    Originally posted by bwiese
                    They don't believe it's possible, but then Alison didn't believe there'd be 350K - 400K OLLs in CA either.
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                    Our fate is ours alone to decide as long as we remain armed heavily enough to dictate it.

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                    • #55
                      Bray556
                      Junior Member
                      • Nov 2008
                      • 99

                      Scorpio is pretty offensive.

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                      • #56
                        ptoguy2002
                        Veteran Member
                        • Jul 2006
                        • 3863

                        On the original subject, you can't fault me for being concerned with the image of CGN. Was it overboard or excessive; maybe. But there are a lot of people in other threads concerned about the image of CGN as it relates to the whole Gpal drama. Perhaps it was just that one particular avatar, where if memory serves, is where they had just executed the 3 guards. Maybe its just me, and maybe I just locked on to that one image, but it is not something that I personally would wish to promote or glorify with an avatar. Movie or not, it doesn't look good to CGN (IMHO, but like I said I guess I am a minority) as a whole when the very small percentage (only the 1 Heat one I saw now after looking for a day [and my new one]) of the avatars may draw unwanted attention.

                        But after actually taking time to look at people avatars the last day or so, there are others depicting criminal use, not as bad as the heat one, so I couldn't even begin to say how you would ok one and not another. Like I said, perhaps I locked on to the Heat one.

                        And since this is a firearms forum, having pictures showing the criminal use of firearms has no comparison to bikes or country music singers. Just like if you were on a country music forum, and you had the Heat avatar, there could be no association or parallels drawn between the forum content and individual person's avatar.

                        On the 1st amendment bit:
                        Your 1st amendment rights in this place go only as far as the mods or owner let you, and they wield that ban hammer when you go to far. So basically there is no 1A on this site. A lot of topics or content is already banned, some that I don't agree with myself (but its not my site). The same logic applies to what I had originally stated. You have to keep in mind though, some of these rules keep this place from becoming another barfcom.

                        As far as Freon's bump: The avatar itself isn't criminal, it is what it depicts. I believe I made my point previously on that.

                        And to clarify:
                        Am I offended by the image? No. Do I think it is a good image for the site (and by association CGF)? No.

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                        • #57
                          localguy
                          Member
                          • Aug 2008
                          • 381

                          My avatar must be offensive. Happyface on a rifle scope cover? OH NO!
                          The Los Angeles Gun Club, Rule #20:
                          The noise will damage the fetus.

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                          • #58
                            Captain Cogle
                            Member
                            • Jun 2010
                            • 289

                            Originally posted by Two Shots
                            Is that Thomas Paine?
                            Nope. He was only a baby when this picture was made.
                            Its Dr. Archibald Cameron, Lt. Colonel of the Cameron of Lochiel Regiment.
                            Fought at the battles of Prestonpans, Falkirk and Culloden.
                            Last Jacobite to be executed by the British crown for being a Scottish Jacobite rebel.

                            He hated the English/Hanoverians (Germans) with a livid passion.

                            Just the sort of chap that would offend a lot of British folks.
                            "And away to the hills, to the caves and the rocks. Here I own a usurper I'll couch with the fox. So tremble false whigs in the midst of your glee. For you've not seen the last of my bonnets and me"
                            Lyrics from the song "Bonnie Dundee"
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                            • #59
                              Dreaded Claymore
                              Veteran Member
                              • May 2010
                              • 3231

                              Originally posted by Captain Cogle
                              Its Dr. Archibald Cameron, Lt. Colonel of the Cameron of Lochiel Regiment.
                              Fought at the battles of Prestonpans, Falkirk and Culloden.
                              Last Jacobite to be executed by the British crown for being a Scottish Jacobite rebel.
                              Scottish Jacobites for the win!

                              That's where I get my Calguns handle. It's taken from a song about a battle between the English and the Jacobites led by Prince Charlie:

                              Ilk hand was firm, ilk heart was true
                              A shot, and down their guns they threw
                              Forth their dreaded claymores drew
                              Upon that fatal mornin'
                              The English raised the loudest "Aah"
                              But daren'ee bide the brunt of a'
                              They wavered, turned, syne ran awa'
                              Like sheep at shepherd's warnin'

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                              • #60
                                Two Shots
                                Senior Member
                                • Mar 2007
                                • 2022

                                Originally posted by Captain Cogle
                                Nope. He was only a baby when this picture was made.
                                Its Dr. Archibald Cameron, Lt. Colonel of the Cameron of Lochiel Regiment.
                                Fought at the battles of Prestonpans, Falkirk and Culloden.
                                Last Jacobite to be executed by the British crown for being a Scottish Jacobite rebel.

                                He hated the English/Hanoverians (Germans) with a livid passion.

                                Just the sort of chap that would offend a lot of British folks.
                                Thanks, I'll have to do some reading on the Lochiel Regiment.
                                "I have a love interest in every one of my films - a gun."
                                - Arnold Schwarzenegger

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