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In reply to the discussion: Went to an organizational meeting for a new chapter of MDA today. [View all]discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,692 posts)95. Well...
        ...if we could ban ARs, 285 people might still be alive.  
 
 What a major brain fart.
  What a major brain fart.
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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
      
        
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        friendly_iconoclast
        Sep 2015
        #91
      
        
        Some posters apparently believe that having a DU account is equivalent to...
        friendly_iconoclast
        Sep 2015
        #81
      
        
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        Duckhunter935
        Sep 2015
        #42
      
  