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

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96. And what percentage of that 55% stems from...

And what percentage of that 55% stems from the *intentional* conflation of non-automatic Title 1 civilian rifles with NFA Title 2 restricted automatic weapons in gun control literature and the corporate media? Or the lurid portrayal of "semiautomatic" as referring to unusually rapid-firing weapons, as opposed to simply the way the vast majority of civilian guns work? Or the intentional misleading of the public as to the magnitude of rifle homicide vs. shotgun, handgun, knife, club, and fist/feet homicide?

There are probably ten times as many AR-15 owners alone in this country than there are members of all gun control organizations combined...and that's not counting the millions more owners of SKS's, civilian AK's, Mini-14's, M1A's, M1 Garands, and other popular "assault weapons", or the millions and millions who own over-10-round Smith & Wessons, Glocks, Sigs, Rugers, Springfields, and heck, even Winchesters going back to the fricking 1860s.

The gun control lobby's irrational obsession with modern-looking rifles and their magazines---and obsession is what it is, since rifle homicide has been rare and falling for decades---has been its downfall. Gun control advocates faithfully recite the anti-"assault weapon" catechism and condemn their sinful sinning owners every chance they get, even when so doing wrecks policies that actually might otherwise have some common ground (like UBC's).