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Probably we should just go by the facts of this incident rather than coming up with "likelihoods" of other possible scenarios. Otherwise we sound like gun nuts! Bottom line is the crowd stopped him from loading the second magazine. A 10 rounder certainly would have had less people wounded. How can that be disputed if we only go by the facts of this particular incident?

Beiruty wrote:
The shooter was a dork, a naive shooter and maybe never practiced reloads (good thing he was not trained). Trained shooter can reload, and keep shooting in split second. I also believe the victims were lucky the shooter did not shoot those who are closer to him first. Something is called tactical priority.

No argument from me on that one! I think I heard he was mentally ill and not thinking coherently for some time. Probably why he didn't practice his tactical reloads. I hope we can come up with better arguments than "The shooter was a dork...." Not sure the majority of Americans will excuse the carnage the high capacity mag enabled him to do for that reason either.

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.

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.
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.