Users ... stop referring to yourselves as "Gun Nuts"

[MoviePropMaster2008]

I can tell who the members are, who are 'young', i.e. too young to realize that the term "Gun Nut" has been often used by Anti gun enemies, the biased media and worse the courts and law enforcement, as a negative term implying "mental instability".

I wouldn't make an issue of it, but I'm running into TOO MANY user pages where the IMFDB member refers to themselves as a "Gun Nut".

I'm saying now. Knock it off!

Gun Nut is not only an insulting term that gun haters use to disparage gun owners, but it's just not a very smart thing to call yourself.

I have many Cop friends who collect firearms and they go Ballistic if anyone calls them 'a gun nut'. They point out that if they ever have to go before a judge or have to account for their actions if they are involved in a shooting incident, the LAST THING they want is for anyone to go on the record, calling them a gun nut. The opposing lawyers will eat that up, painting you as a mentally unstable person obsessed with guns. Yes, it's sad, pathetic, but it's also a sign of the times......

When I have Police and Lawyer friends saying "Never call yourself a Gun Nut", I tend to listen.