I was banned from Free Republic for one day, during my 14 years registered here.
It happened when I made and "insensitive" comment about Ted's impending death.
What you said is true. I lived on Cape Cod, and the morning that news made the newspaper, it was gone by noon! I was a young, impressionable teen then. I’ve not liked that particular fellow the rest of his born days! It was HE that started this whole ‘government-gun-ban business’!