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> This is to protect from negative associations with the rust brand. After all, you don’t want rust being associated with a mass shooting event or a stampede etc… So we exclude people who have strong feeling about carrying firearms?
if you feel the need to carry firearms to a programming convention, then yeah I’m okay excluding them. Many events, including the NRAs own events, prohibit the carrying of firearms in part or in full. This is normal.
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