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[TheSpecialist]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

You are not in the habit of making outrageous claims.

I'll see which mass shooting, if there was one, was stopped when the killer stopped to reload.

Look, I'm no anti-gun nut. It just seems like common sense to me that it's easier for me to kill more people with a 30-round magazine than with 3 ten-round magazines. If I'm wrong, and I may be, then that should be the end of the discussion. But if my goal is to kill as many people as possible, I'll take a rifle with a high-capacity magazine over a revolver every day.

If we are serious about making changes (and I see no evidence we are), we need to make gun control decisions that are based on fact, not emotion. In my opinion, the gun-control issue is less important than the required discussion about the crap in movies and video games we bombard our kids with.

In a free society, we will have these things happen on occasion, that's the price we pay for our freedom. But if we can reduce the frequency and severity of these attacks without trampling on the constitution, I'm all for it.

Have you ever had a gun pointed at you?
There are two types of people in this world, Fight or Flight, and 99.9 % are flight type people.
If a guys is fumbling with a magazine any unarmed person is going to take flight, so he will just change it out and keep going. An armed person is more likely to make a stand and end the situation, but since there are fewer legally armed citizens in the country than unarmed, you will end up with more casualties, and less people putting an end to the threat. Most people who are adept with firearms are not going to let a magazine change stop them from their intent.

BTW I know what it is like to have a gun stuck in my face as a victim of an Armed Robbery when I was 16, it is not a very pleasant feeling, and believe me if my cousin had a gun behind the counter I would have fought back...

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by TheSpecialist

Have you ever had a gun pointed at you?
There are two types of people in this world, Fight or Flight, and 99.9 % are flight type people.
If a guys is fumbling with a magazine any unarmed person is going to take flight, so he will just change it out and keep going. An armed person is more likely to make a stand and end the situation, but since there are fewer legally armed citizens in the country than unarmed, you will end up with more casualties, and less people putting an end to the threat. Most people who are adept with firearms are not going to let a magazine change stop them from their intent.

BTW I know what it is like to have a gun stuck in my face as a victim of an Armed Robbery when I was 16, it is not a very pleasant feeling, and believe me if my cousin had a gun behind the counter I would have fought back...

I'm not anti-gun, I am aware of what happens in cities where guns are banned. All I'm saying is, and this is irrefutable, it's harder for the averake kook to kill large numbers of people with a handgun than it is with a rifle.

You're talking about typical street crime. I'm talking about the much rarer situation where someone snaps and wants to kill as many people as possible. I'm not talking robbery, I'm talking about random mass murder. In that scenario, I'm pretty sure we are all better off if that guy has a handgun than a rifle with a high-capacity magazine.

To answer your question, I am a combat vet. And every time I was in for-real combat, I would have been much happier if the bad guys had handguns instead of automatic weapons.

You people are denying that guns are more dangerous than my bare hands, and denying that machine guns are more lethal than handguns? I don't get that argument.

"If a guys is fumbling with a magazine any unarmed person is going to take flight,"

Wrong. Tell that to the principal and the psychologist of Sandy Hook school who died rushing the shooter while he was still shooting. If that kook had to stop to re-load at that time, there is a getter chance they could have overpowered him just long enough for the cavalry to arrive.

I would never say that banning high capacity magazines will end crime. However, I can't believe some people are denying that these weapons make it easier to kill large numbers of people. why do you think the Marines are issued rifles? To twirl around at parades? For the exercise we get carrying them around?

[TheSpecialist]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

I'm not anti-gun, I am aware of what happens in cities where guns are banned. All I'm saying is, and this is irrefutable, it's harder for the averake kook to kill large numbers of people with a handgun than it is with a rifle.

You're talking about typical street crime. I'm talking about the much rarer situation where someone snaps and wants to kill as many people as possible. I'm not talking robbery, I'm talking about random mass murder. In that scenario, I'm pretty sure we are all better off if that guy has a handgun than a rifle with a high-capacity magazine.

To answer your question, I am a combat vet. And every time I was in for-real combat, I would have been much happier if the bad guys had handguns instead of automatic weapons.



You people are denying that guns are more dangerous than my bare hands, and denying that machine guns are more lethal than handguns? I don't get that argument.

"If a guys is fumbling with a magazine any unarmed person is going to take flight,"

Wrong. Tell that to the principal and the psychologist of Sandy Hook school who died rushing the shooter while he was still shooting. If that kook had to stop to re-load at that time, there is a getter chance they could have overpowered him just long enough for the cavalry to arrive.

I would never say that banning high capacity magazines will end crime. However, I can't believe some people are denying that these weapons make it easier to kill large numbers of people. why do you think the Marines are issued rifles? To twirl around at parades? For the exercise we get carrying them around?

I am not denying that Machine guns are more dangerous than handguns, but there in lies the problem. We are not talking about machine guns, machine guns are fully automatic, hold the trigger and fire as many rounds as you have. We are talking semi automatic look a likes, big difference.

Let me give you this scenario, we were duck hunting one time, I was using a pump shotgun, Remington 870, my buddy was using his Remington 100, semi automatic. When you are duck hunting you are limited to 3 shells in the gun. A group of ducks came in and my buddy spotted them before me, yet I got up and got three shots off at ducks moving very fast and killed 2, before my buddy got off 2 shots not hitting one. He was pissed that a pump shotgun got 3 shots off faster than his semi auto shot gun.


Where did you hear that the unarmed principal "rushed " the shooter, I am thinking she rushed to the commotion, but we will never ever know the true story about that one. There is no denying the average person will try to hide or flee and very few if any will try to do anything. Now lets say she did rush the guy, don't you think if she had been armed we would not be burying all of those little kids ?

The larger problem is how we treat the mentally ill in this country. How we treat each other. How parents raise their kids. The lack of respect most kids have for each other, adults, and life in general...

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by TheSpecialist

The larger problem is how we treat the mentally ill in this country. How we treat each other. How parents raise their kids. The lack of respect most kids have for each other, adults, and life in general...

AGREE 100%. Any impact of gun control is nothing compared to the impact of trying to find ways to teach our kids to have some empathy for their fellow man. You are absolutely, 100% dead-on, you nailed the larger problem correctly. Yet all I'm hearing from Washington is gun control.

[TheSpecialist]

Everyone watch this video and then give an honest answer to whether or not the politicians are wasting their time going after "assault weapons"


Assault Rifle vs. Sporting Rifle - YouTube