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In reply to the discussion: Went to an organizational meeting for a new chapter of MDA today. [View all]Kang Colby
(1,941 posts)28. Most of those MDA people sound like
fruit loops once they get to talking. I think you did a good thing bringing up Project ChildSafe, but I doubt Bloomberg HQ would approve of any public support from MDA for the project on any public forum including local outreach or social media. Why? Because you don't need gun locks f you don't have guns...and that is their ultimate goal. Always remember, "#meltthemdown."
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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