I have to ask, why do you come to that conclusion?BillT wrote:He was stopped by the crowd after emptying the 30 round magazine and trying to reload another. So for some reason I come up with less than half as many people would have been shot if he only had 10 round magazines. In my mind that is substantially less havoc.karder wrote: The Tucson shooter was no more enabled to cause havoc due to his 30 round magazines than he would have with 10 rounders.
Am I missing something? There is something in your logic I'm not getting, nor are the majority of the people that have responded to the CNN poll. Much better arguments are needed if the gun control momentum this tragic event started has a hope to be stopped.
If he had had 3 ten-round magazines wouldn't he still have killed and wounded as many people?
Ignoring the base assumption that the gun-control folks want guns to be banned...period, can we assume that what they are really getting at here is the desire for those carrying firearms to carry no more than a limited amount of ammo, period?
Hmmm? You may be onto something.