I agree - guns here on ETS is a "tricky" subject. Guns are such a polarizing issue it's rather difficult to keep social and political slants from encroaching. In that regard, the mods seem to always have an obligatory appearance about 5 posts in saying "keep it clean, people" and then let the thread run it's course. For the most part, all of you here on ETS do a fine job of keeping your personal agendas out of threads. Kudos to all of us.

FWIW, DR actually carries a gun at times (it's on the main site somewhere). So we can assume he at least recognizes their utility.

I tend to agree, so far ETS has been a good gun-neutral forum. I'm on a couple other forums (NOT survival related) and they seem to think that 10K rounds of ammo just means they can kill and plunder as their survival "kit." I'm glad most of us don't twist threads into that sort of realm. And most of the firearms we DO talk about are usually .22, airguns, or some sort of shotgun. Not saying that other firearms aren't acceptable or useful, but it seems for this particular forum, they are recommended.