Note - I am a gun owner.
I own the weapon on the right - the same type of automatic I carried as a Marine Lieutenant in Vietnam. The same one my father carried in the Army in WWII. The same gun that the US military has used since 1911.
The horrible shooting in Arizona calls for some kind of action. But gun owners and the NRA won't stand for gun control - America has
long since decided we will not have gun control.
long since decided we will not have gun control.
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| Glcck with Large Magazine |
If he only had the 9 rounds that the military has in their 1911 automatic fewer people would have been killed and wounded.
If someone is such a lousy shot that he can't shoot who needs shooting with 9 rounds then he is beyond help. I am an OK marksman - and 9 rounds is plenty. In WWII the magazine only carried 7 rounds.
I advocate a limit on magazines of 9 rounds. What do other folks think of this?
And of course there is the Buy-America angle - why are we letting these Austrians who lost WWII sell all the weapons that kill Americans? Lets bring the manufacture of our murder weapons back to proud Americans. (sick tasteless joke, I apologize)
And of course there is the Buy-America angle - why are we letting these Austrians who lost WWII sell all the weapons that kill Americans? Lets bring the manufacture of our murder weapons back to proud Americans. (sick tasteless joke, I apologize)
We need a catchy title for this movement. How about
9 SATS
9 Shots, Assault The Shooter
OK, the catchy title needs work.- Send me your suggestions.
Some excerpts of an excellent article:
"Glock led the charge back into the large-capacity clip business. Other gun and accessory makers also pushed ever-larger magazines. Today, Sportsman's Warehouse in Tucson, where Loughner bought his Glock, advertises a 50-round "Tactical Solutions Drum Magazine" for .22 caliber Ruger rifles priced at $64.99. The outlet's website notes, however, that "compact and subcompact Glock pistol model magazines can be loaded with a convincing number of rounds—i.e. … up to 33 rounds." The online store CDNN Sports, based in Abilene, Tex., advertises 33- and 31-round Glock-compatible mags that it labels "Asian Military MFG." Only six states—California, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York—now have their own limits on large magazines."
"High-efficiency weapons make American criminals deadlier, and in extreme cases, such as Tucson, large magazines make them deadlier still. Compared with other industrialized Western democracies, the U.S. does not have an especially high level of crime, or even violent crime. What it does have is "a startlingly high level—about five times the Western European/ Canadian/ Australian average—of homicide," UCLA public policy professor Mark A.R. Kleiman writes in his 2009 book, When Brute Force Fails. The U.S. "also has an astoundingly high level of private gun—especially handgun—ownership," an estimated 100 million civilian handguns. Gun homicide rates are higher in the U.S., Kleiman argues, because robberies, residential burglaries, and aggravated assaults committed with guns are all more lethal."
Read the rest of the article here"
4 comments:
Well, if Jared Lee Loughner was restricted to 9 round magazines... what's to say he would have planned better and arranged to bring multiple weapons?
That is true. But many of these nutcase shooters don't think or plan so well, and it is more costly to get more weapons.
Guns don't kill people. People with weapons kill people
I don't know why we would need even nine. Shooting one person is way too much when it is done for any reason other than to defend yourself or someone else. The obsession with guns in this country has been over the top for many years and the NRA has scared most politicians (even the most liberal ones) so much that they will not even address it in most cases. Combine this with the craziness that passes for political discourse in our media and by our politicians and we should not be surprised when the outcome is tragedy.
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