I think it's a good idea. I believe in the right to bear arms, but have never seen why people need assault rifles and the like that can mow people down in mass numbers.
Yes, if someone is going to break into your house, you should be able to defend yourself just as well with 10 bullets as 70 bullets. If not, either A, there is a lot of people breaking in and you're probably f'ed anyway, or B, you are a bad shot and probably not going to win the gun battle.
Wouldn't that suck to rapid fire 60 times and still miss. Geeze, talk about having to relinquish your man card.
From the sounds of it the guy was jamming up his gun with whatever he was using. Changing mags might actually have given him time to refocus and find targets rather than spraying like a garden hose.
Or he let his gun jam because he's a scrub noob and doesn't know how to use it, so changing the clip would be too tough for him. We can speculate all day here. The real problem was he had access to a gun, and had some mental health problems that should have been addressed by someone. I think the real answer here is mental health awareness and more access to cheap healthcare.
Yeah. I'm not strongly pro or anti gun control. I just think people tend to get distracted in the wake of these incidents. The focus should be on the victims and investigating the crime, and trying not to give the guy the attention he craved.
I agree whole heartedly that mental health awareness should be a continuing goal of all government at every level. But to say that the answer is also "more access to cheap healthcare" confuses me a bit. I mean, even with Obamacare this stuff is going to happen. Maybe more ouot of frustration of adding a broken system on top of another and creating hatred to boot.
pure reactionary bullshit the number of rounds in a clip does not make some wack job any kinder. The highest used rifle used by the US in WW2 was the M1, it never had a clip that could hold even ten rounds, and more people died from this gun than any single other.
Ah yes! People have a knee jerk reaction. They need time to calm down before making hasty decisions. There should be an official waiting period when someone wants to buy a gun, oops i mean post about guns!
Its not completely bullshit. It would barely slow done the experience gun owner, but could be limiter if to the crazy kid who needs a gun now because he is pissed off at the world. The main argument I hear for keeping the current laws is that this is reactionary bullshit. Is there a better reason to having a mega clip? If not then I vote yes on this law.
He's. I believe saying changing clips would not slow down someone with experience, but would slow down someone who just steals a gun from a friend, because they wouldn't have the experience of changing a clip quickly. So it would slow him down.
Forgot to address this, sorry BP. I think affordable care act will do a lot of expand cheap healthcare, but I don't know if there is or isn't an emphasis on mental health. I think a lot of people take it for granted.
