Dear Republicunt Dickheads,

[Minimalist]

[SteelCurtain]

The thing is, even if these shootings are not preventable, maybe the number of casualties could be lower. If this cunt has to reload every 9-12 rounds and has to shoot with a weapon that has a lot less accuracy... maybe only 25 people die in that night club. Maybe only 10 children die in an elementary school.

[Thumpalumpacus]

[Thumpalumpacus]

The thing is, even if these shootings are not preventable, maybe the number of casualties could be lower. If this cunt has to reload every 9-12 rounds and has to shoot with a weapon that has a lot less accuracy... maybe only 25 people die in that night club. Maybe only 10 children die in an elementary school.

Not to be pedantic, but I doubt accuracy had very much to do with the death toll at all. An AR-15 firing 5.56 has a hell of a lot of penetrating power due to high muzzle velocity (as I'm sure you know from your own military experience). In a crowded club, each round would be more likely to inflict wounds on more than one person, even though the round tumbles randomly after impact. There are so many people in the area that it'd be hard to avoid second woundings.

That's not to say I don't support restrictions on magazine capacity. There's no reason any AR-15 owner -- even those using them for predator control on ranches, say -- needs a 30-shot magazine; and yes, having to drop and reload give everyone in the area a second or two of time to react without a bullet flying. More to the point, restricting magazine size is not restricting the right to own a weapon, so protests from the NRA about such proposals are horseshit.