My experience is that on predominantly (left) liberal communities, that a gun rights topic’s top post will rarely represent the view of gun owners.
Everything else you said resonated, but that part strongly contradicted for me.
Everything else you said resonated, but that part strongly contradicted for me.
Saying something like you don’t agree that investment properties should be illegal is enough to get you banned in many parts of reddit.
Likewise, threads on covid policy were generally supportive of the scientific consensus... Until the subject of keeping gyms closed comes up, where the bro-science faithful would appear to declare all covid restrictions a crime against humanity.
It's not astriturfing or anything malicious, just the natural result of a subject being a disproportionate interest to a highly motivated subset of the community.
Even non-gun-owners are entitled an opinion on guns as they can be used against them too.