High-Capacity Magazine Bans - No Hinderance to Mass Shooters - Granite Grok

High-Capacity Magazine Bans – No Hinderance to Mass Shooters

DavidGregoryMagWhen the only people with weapons are the bad guys, at that point, what difference does a high capacity magazine ban make?  None.

AWR Hawkins

On June 4, the Los Angeles Times reported that Elliot Rodger fired more than 50 rounds of ammunition while killing three people with a gun, even though he was only using 10-round magazines. …

The LA Times reports that Rodger fired over 50 rounds in just over eight minutes, “changing magazines more than 5 times.” He then died by shooting himself and was found “slumped behind the wheel of his smashed BMW.”

The news that the ban on “high capacity” magazines was no hindrance squares perfectly with the Virginia Tech Review Panel’s assessment that a “high capacity” ban would have had little to no impact on Seung-Hui Cho, the gunman who used 15-round magazines in killing 32 people and wounding 17 on April 16, 2007.

When everyone else is running away and hiding, because the Government (or the university) disarmed them, a high-capacity magazine ban is pointless.  A shooter can take all the time to reload they want… until someone else with a gun shows up to shoot back.

Armed, law-abiding civilians save lives.  Disarmed civilians…are target practice.

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