On Sandy Hook
Sky is falling version
Total of 9 30 rounders, 3 were still full
155 rounds fired, in around 5 minutes, and since he was dropping partly loaded magazines, and reloading, 10 round magazines wouldn't have made a difference, since he committed homicide to obtain the guns, "Universal" background checks wouldn't have stopped him.
Context is key, you can shoot almost a third of that total number of shots with a bolt gun in the same time with a little practice at close range.
ReplyDeleteOne front of our battle for gun rights has to be politely educating people who don't have personal experience with guns, and reminding those that do to think about their experience.
The emotional claims will get harder as people learn facts.
So he reloaded, and kept going. Kind of shoots the argument for magazine limitations right in the a$$...
ReplyDeleteThought that if they had to stop and reload, then otherwise unarmed citizens could rush the shooter with scissors and pencils...not much of a tactic for 6- and 7-year olds.
You could even make a case that the more severe the magazine capacity limitation, the greater the likelihood that a spree killer would select the most physically vulnerable victims he could find...they're less capable of resisting while he reloads.
Unintended consequences...