Dating App Bumble Bans Guns In Profile Pics

By Tom Knighton

From time to time, single friends of mine confided in me that they’ll use pictures of them with guns as profiles for dating apps. Their reasoning was that it served to filter out the women who were going to be politically incompatible with them pretty early. After all, if the women in question saw them with a gun and still wanted to communicate, it probably meant they had no problem with firearms.

Yes, some dating sites allow you to list your political affiliation, but a gun in a profile picture is a much faster way and isn’t as likely to be skimmed over.

This is especially important since matters of politics–particularly gun rights–can be a deal-breaking that pops up after emotions have gotten involved.

On the dating app Bumble, however, it doesn’t matter. You can’t use a firearm in your profile pic anymore.

If the sexiest thing about you is your gun collection, you’re out of luck in more ways than one. Yesterday dating app Bumble announced in a blog post that images of guns are henceforth banned across the platform: “As mass shootings continue to devastate communities across the country, it’s time to state unequivocally that gun violence is not …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms