Oleg, I know that it's your forum, but I honestly think that we're seeing the death of the site as a useful place for a discussion.
Perhaps he does not want it to be a "useful place" as you would define it. Maybe he wants it to be "useful" as he defines it.
It is after all his property.
If you don't like it, start your own. Call it
www.bannedfromthehighroadandproudofit.com.
All you say is true, and of course anyone can start a new forum these days. The sad thing is that the pro-RKBA community is being further splintered every time that happens. On THR people bemoan the way in which hunters are pitted against folks who prefer battle rifles, and vice versa--a sure way for
all gun owners to be divided and conquered.
Fractionating the pro-RKBA community by preferred type of firearm, by position on the WoT, etc., only serves to make the problem worse.
On the other hand, there is a legitimate issue that THR is attempting to address: they
want a division between responsible and irresponsible advocates of the 2A. The subset who advocate criminal acts, or demonstrate blood-lust, or show the kind of irresponsibility that that produces casualties, are purposely excluded from THR. That's its actual mission. And it's a mission I can certainly get behind! There are dangerous bubbas in the world, and I'd like to see them mend their ways--but at the very least, I'd like to make sure they aren't held up as representative of myself and my position.
But, respectfully, I submit that I and others in the mass ban are not of that sort. My best guess as to why I was banned is that I recently suggested, less than half tongue-in-cheek, that "sensible gun control" is a good idea if it keeps guns out of the hand of government agents. That could be construed as anti-LEO, but in fact is a straight-up Jeffersonian view: the 2A was created specifically to ensure that civilians out-gun the government. But neither that, nor anything else I can recall posting, represents personal attacks, or advocating criminal or dangerous acts. It puts me in disagreement with the militarist crowd, but along lines where I thought there was room for respectful disagreement.
In short, the bummer of it is that folks who should be allies are instead divided, and we are all weakened as a result.
--Len.