DASHY wrote:
Point taken. In most mass murders high-capacity magazines were used to commit the crime. Gun laws should focus on restricting the sale of this type of weapon without limiting firearm ownership for personal use, like self-defense and suicide.
The notion that "in most mass murders high capacity magazines were used" is fallacious.
Some years ago, Mother Jones conducted an investigation into 128 mass murders dating back to 1982,
the data included the types of firearms used.
Of the 143 firearms used, 71 were semi-auto handguns, 23 were revolvers, 28 were rifles of all types, and 21 were shotguns.
As an American gunslinger from birth, I can confirm that magazine capacity has nothing to do with the lethality of a determined k**ler.
Any firearm that uses magazines or clips can be reloaded and ready to fire in less than 2 seconds.
A shooter with three 10 rd mags can fire 30 rds almost as fast as a shooter with one 30 rd mag.
With a stop watch and an AR15, I proved this myself.
Banning high capacity mags would be like putting a bandaid on a headache.
All violent crimes are symptoms of a disease.
Symptoms merely indicate a disease exists.
You cannot cure a disease by dealing only with its symptoms.
IOW, you cannot eliminate a cause by simply treating its effects.
And, to be clear, the disease is human, the cause is human, the effects are human.
A gun is neither the cause nor the effect.