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Originally Posted by AltaGuy

Quite a few of my esteemed pro-gun facebook friends are posting this article: http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/20...n-gun-control/



It's worth a read because it's not complete baloney - as in, despite its many, many flawed arguments, at least it somewhat makes sense (as opposed to most views from the NRA's boosters). Anyway, this is the best I've seen from the pro-gun nutjobs in the states, and even this isn't very good.

I find the mental gymnastics some people will go through to justify the status quo fascinating. Here's a good example from that article where first he talks about why there shouldn't be a limit on the number of rounds in a magazine:

First off, why do gun owners want magazines that hold more rounds? Because sometimes you miss. Because usually—contrary to the movies—you have to hit an opponent multiple times in order to make them stop. Because sometimes you may have multiple assailants. We don’t have more rounds in the magazine so we can shoot more, we have more rounds in the magazine so we are forced to manipulate our gun less if we have to shoot more.

The last assault weapons ban capped capacities at ten rounds. You quickly realize ten rounds sucks when you take a wound ballistics class like I have and go over case after case after case after case of enraged, drug addled, prison hardened, perpetrators who soaked up five, seven, nine, even fifteen bullets and still walked under their own power to the ambulance. That isn’t uncommon at all. Legally, you can shoot them until they cease to be a threat, and keep in mind that what normally causes a person to stop is loss of blood pressure, so I used to tell my students that anybody worth shooting once was worth shooting five or seven times.

Then a couple of paragraphs later he downplays the effect smaller magazines in an effort to suggest that they'll have no effect on a gunman's ability to kill people:

Unless you are a fumble fingered idiot, anybody who practices in front of a mirror a few dozen times can get to where they can insert a new magazine into a gun in a few seconds.