Dayton3
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You hear it every time there is a large scale shooting and they trot out gun control arguments. "Ban high capacity magazines!!"
Why? I don't own any semi automatic rifles (though I've fired more than a few) and I'm no gun nut of any kind, yet even I know it takes only a few seconds to eject a semi auto magazine and insert another one. In short in a mass shooting situation it would certainly make no difference at all.
So why bother banning them?
I think it has to do with the "image" people have of guns and high capacity magazines which they've largely gleaned from movies and video games. That is where a shooter can simply pull down on the trigger and "spray" bullets seemingly indefinitely.
It has no connection to reality though.
Why? I don't own any semi automatic rifles (though I've fired more than a few) and I'm no gun nut of any kind, yet even I know it takes only a few seconds to eject a semi auto magazine and insert another one. In short in a mass shooting situation it would certainly make no difference at all.
So why bother banning them?
I think it has to do with the "image" people have of guns and high capacity magazines which they've largely gleaned from movies and video games. That is where a shooter can simply pull down on the trigger and "spray" bullets seemingly indefinitely.
It has no connection to reality though.