How many of you would be willing to limit magazine capacity to save one child's life?

[jmowreader]

118. This is a bandage where a tourniquet is needed

I don't want to sound belittling, but have you ever fired an M-16 or any of the civilian variants?

Two things conspire to make capacity limits useless, as the Virginia Tech shooter can attest.

A combat rifle is designed to be operated with one hand. With your right hand wrapped around the pistol grip you can work the trigger and magazine release with your index finger, and the bolt release and selector switch with your thumb. It takes very little time to learn to work these controls very quickly. Eighteen-year-old kids at basic training learn it every day.

The M-16 has very little recoil. At short range you can get lots of hits firing singlehanded. So, if you were of the mind to do some wholesale slaughter and all you could get were 10-rounders, a gym bag with a shoulder strap will hold all you'll ever need. You can slaughter with the right hand, reload with the left.

If you want to stop people from committing wholesale slaughter with Semiautomatic Rifles Available To Civilians That Look Just Like Rifles Issued to Infantrymen (if you call 'em assault rifles the gungeon points out they're not selective-fire) you don't bellyache over magazine capacity, you get firearms with detachable magazines out of the hands of the general public.