I am opposed to DHS (TSA, mostly). How can I be in favor of gun control?

[Lizzie Poppet]

21. I don't honestly think it would make much difference.

Yeah, 100 round magazines are pretty silly. Not just excessive...silly. They're prone to jamming and horribly upset the balance of the weapon. I don't think it would be any great burden to eliminate them...but I also don't think it would accomplish much in terms of saving lives. They're uncommon (the Aurora tragedy is the only incidence of use in homicide that comes to mind...they're simply not that popular on the market), and with minimal practice, a person can change regular magazines in less that two seconds flat.

Bottom line, I wouldn't miss 100 round magazines...but I don't think banning them would accomplish much, either.

I don't really support the concept of making laws on the basis of extremely rare events like mass shootings or people flying airliners into skyscrapers. Mass murders seem more common than they are because they're so horrible, they loom large in our consciousness (and they make great "if it bleeds, it leads" fodder for the news media). Heck, murders with rifles (all rifles, not just military-style semi-automatics) account for less than 5% of all gun-related murder per annum. I'd much rather concentrate on figuring out how to get handguns out of criminal possession. That's where the real damage is being done.