Some of the Gungeoneers will be surprised to find that the VPC

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43. My observation is that people apply the 'lumping together' strategy when

they prefer to deal with caricatures rather than individuals - when they want to argue against a strawman hypothetical opponent rather than actual words on the screen from an actual single interlocutor. As long as 'gun nut' (or any of the more hostile epithets) is kept artfully vague, then any sort of pro-RKBA statement can be treated as coming from that stereotype. Too many DUers have a habit of viewing any statement less extreme than "Gunz are teh SUCK!!!" through the filter of an imaginary 'gunzer' rather than engaging with the actual content of the post.

In practice, as a general rule, I find that any post containing any derivative of "you people", "those people", that group", or people like you is 95% certain to be worthless. (By the same token, the opener "So you're saying..." has a 95% chance of being followed by complete bullshit.)