Crazed Trolls in the Guntube Space

Don’t read the comments; something I can’t always do. What happens when the comments really fly off the handle? Our buddy Jason from Texas Gun Vault has a balanced approach.

The internet is a vicious and crazy place. Ever since the days of BBSes and sending over a private “whisper,” people have been just awful in front of and behind each other’s digital backs. Content creators, writers, bloggers, journalists — pretty much anyone who puts themselves out there in the public, opens themselves up to an endless supply of scrutiny. Our good friend Jason from Texas Gun Vault recently discussed a nasty comment he got from a troll.

Ironically enough, just the other day Texas Gun Vault was mentioned in an article discussing deplatforming. He’s been subject to deplatforming in the past, as previously reported, and recently he’s found himself to be getting a few strikes. The ironic part is that a social media post sharing that article got a trollish comment.

We pretending a business deciding who they do business with is censorship again? 🙄 If I get banned from Target have I been “deplatformed”? Also, I thought there were no nicknames allowed in this group.

Jason hits the nail on the head in the way he describes the keyboard commandos. “I already knew I was going to get a bunch of knuckle dragging Neanderthals in the gun world that cannot separate logic, thought, and reason from their heart, because there’s so many people out there that are just drones,” Jason said in his video.

“Most of these people that leave these comments that I’m about to show you pretty much live in their parents’ basements,” said Jason. “They probably wear diapers and eat chicken nuggies and mac and cheese all day, because they’re just children at heart.”

What was Jason dealing with on his end that moved him to put out nearly a 23 minute video on the topic? The video Jason posted titled “TGV³ Commentary: The Dugan Ashley Arrest – Like Matt Hoover, it is NOT about freedom of speech!” drew the ire he expected from one such “knuckle dragging Neanderthal.”

The chest pounding “shall not be infringed” crowd are likely the same folks that will make illogical conclusions about the First Amendment. 

This comment was from Pooter Goblin, and with a name like that, you already know we’re dealing with an Einstein-level thinker of firearms, this is going to be a serious comment, and probably not have any grammatical problems, right? So Pooter Goblin says, “One cannot break laws that are not legitimate. The Second Amendment,” by the way, he spells second as “2n” instead of “2nd,” “is the law. He was following the law. All weapons and explosive laws are directly contrary to the supreme law.” So, what law is one to follow? “You, sir, are the enemy of the free people. No quarter will be given  to tyrants.” 

All right, so he’s calling me a tyrant, and says no quarter, which is so funny, because I guess that’s one of these extremist terms now, because everyone’s watched John Wick Part Four, and they’ve seen the duel between John Wick and the Marquis, and they’re like, “no quarter,” which means no mercy given.

The point that Jason draws out in the video is that we can all have differing opinions, but when you look at the implications — as immature and underdeveloped as the comment was — of the comment, it’s actually rather, “unhinged,” as he calls it.

We talking about somebody that’s claiming that I’m a tyrant, an enemy of the free people, and what are they going to do? Come track me down, attack me and my family, kill me, and have no mercy given? Why? Because I disagree with him on the arrest of Dugan Ashley …?

Agree with Jason or not, he’s a sensible guy and approaches many things pragmatically and with a bit of stoic philosophy. That’s one of the things that I like about his content. Truth be told, we don’t agree on everything and the last conversation we had just the other week was because I disagreed with him about something. And look, we came out the other side A-ok.

The video brings up a salient point about how people behave on the internet and in society as a whole. I urge folks to tune into Jason’s full video about the comment and about trolls in general. He brings to light the ugly that we shouldn’t be putting forward, but he also stands as an example on how to deal with the haters. What do you think? Sound off in the comments — I’ll check in on them!

If you’d like to see Jason’s video about the “unhinged” comment, you can do so HERE or in the embed below.

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