I have been attacking the quality of your questions and research. Not you personally. This practice is called criticism.<p>In regards JAQing off behavior, the related term &quot;sealioning&quot; is relevant. Quoting from <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rationalwiki.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Just_asking_questions" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rationalwiki.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Just_asking_questions</a> :<p>&gt; Sealioning involves jumping into a conversation with endless questions and demands for answers, usually of entry-level topics far below the actual conversation ... The questions themselves, when done properly, are normally polite - just an irrelevant distraction.<p>You can see that &quot;nothing short of respectful&quot; is therefore expected behavior for someone who is &quot;just asking questions&quot;.<p>You&#x27;ll also note the caution:<p>&gt; A particularly toxic thing about sealioning is that people who are genuine newbies asking serious questions are easy to mistake for sealions.<p>Based on your comment history you do not seem to be a &quot;genuine newbie.&quot; I of course may be wrong, in which case my apologies. If that is the case, you may wish to investigate this rhetorical style in order to avoid structuring your investigatory question in a similar fashion, to avoid having others in the future respond with similar knee-jerk reactions.<p>However, note that earlier in this thread you said:<p>&gt; &quot;To clarify further, I am not for or against guns. I am completely neutral about them.&quot;<p>while 74 days ago, at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9956552" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9956552</a> , you wrote:<p>&gt; This is (some of) what I want for humanity: ...<p>&gt;  - No guns<p>which appears to mean that you are, actually, against guns.<p>As you said then, &quot;Each one of those line items could be a months-long discussion as to the merits, or lack thereof, of the idea&quot;, so you must realize that the questions you ask now fundamentally cannot be addressed to your satisfaction on HN.<p>Which further strengthens my belief that you were not asking these questions here in good faith.