Went to an organizational meeting for a new chapter of MDA today.

[branford]

57. In your own post today (#49),

you suggested that an AR-15 bad would save lives, yet now an "AWB is a waste of time."

Yes, an assault weapons ban is one of the items on their long term agenda and I don't care. So there. If AR 15s are sooooo precious to you don't contribute. If, on the other hand saving lives makes a difference to you . . .

It appears that you would willingly accept or ignore the banning or effective confiscation of many millions of the most popular rile in the country (no less all other "assault weapons&quot , when all rifles represent a minuscule fraction of firearm crime and accidents (and the last "assault weapons ban" proved totally ineffective according to the Obama Justice Department), from tens of millions of law-abiding gun owners, or at the very least openly and actively support a group that advocates such a position, apparently as an unavailable or ancillary part of your purported quest for "gun safety.

Again, the MDA is a "gun safety" organization like the Catholic Church promotes "safe premarital sex" through abstinence-only education. If you advocate gun safety as a member of MDA you will, quite rightly and unsurprisingly, be treated as a strict gun control supporter, no matter your claims to the contrary.

You also allude to gun rights supporters' opposition to the "simplest" solutions to firearm problems in the country.

Fixing that problem can be done but opposition to even the simplest proposals is, at this point, impossible to overcome as evidenced by the other responses to this post.

"Simple" proposals are like "common sense" solutions. The terms are entirely subjective and meaningless. A "simple" solution could be the repeal of the Second Amendment, outlawing all firearms, and declaring martial law.

What "simple" solutions have MDA actively proposed to further "gun safety" that don't include the banning of firearms and accessories that could have actually stopped recent mass shootings or far more prevalent street crime, and have other more moderate groups made similar proposals without the prior politically-toxic baggage of gun ban proposals.