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In reply to the discussion: Went to an organizational meeting for a new chapter of MDA today. [View all]krispos42
(49,445 posts)4. You didn't challenge or refute a single point that he made.
Is he wrong? Why or why not?
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I should know better and nothing I say here will make the slightest dent in the
flamin lib
Sep 2015
#6
The Lanza commentary alluded to the fact that mass shootings, while spectacular, are a small portion
flamin lib
Sep 2015
#47
So where do they stand on banning "assault weapons" and normal-capacity magazines?
benEzra
Sep 2015
#44
Aha, found it. One of the first (or perhaps THE first) ad campaign MDA ever did...
benEzra
Sep 2015
#48
Yes, an assault weapons ban is one of the items on their long term agenda and I don't care.
flamin lib
Sep 2015
#49
Awww shit, I get so Goddamn tired of this crap. MDA has a long term goal of an AWB and I don't care
flamin lib
Sep 2015
#58
Then don't pretend it's about "saving lives", since rifles are the least misused of all weapons.
benEzra
Sep 2015
#67
He is skeptical of a group that has worked against Dems, hides their prohibitionism...
friendly_iconoclast
Sep 2015
#17
Straw purchase is almost impossible to prove. In one case from Kansas a felon
flamin lib
Sep 2015
#29
I beg to differ, particularly when the focus is on preventing people from liking guns.
branford
Sep 2015
#39
It is the really mean people like this ^^^^ that causes him to not want to post here.
oneshooter
Sep 2015
#74
One of the problems with near-Trumpian levels of self regard, James...
friendly_iconoclast
Sep 2015
#79
You made the original assertion, you prove it. And your opinion of their suitability is irrelevant
friendly_iconoclast
Sep 2015
#86
When there's a moral panic to be touted, incovenient facts get ignored
friendly_iconoclast
Sep 2015
#92
"AR15s are NOT in common use." Oh, bullshit. They are a commonly used *firearm*
friendly_iconoclast
Sep 2015
#91
Some posters apparently believe that having a DU account is equivalent to...
friendly_iconoclast
Sep 2015
#81
"Perhaps you can share some of the child safety materials distributed by Brady or MDA"
Duckhunter935
Sep 2015
#42