Some Gun Owners DESERVE to Lose Their Guns [View all]

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The people pushing the petition to deport Piers Morgan deserve to lose their right to keep and bear arms . . . and their right to vote . . . and possibly their right to procreate.

If somebody challenges your right to do something and you respond by challenging that person's right to challenge you, you've already lost.

There are rational, intelligent arguments to be made, but most gun rights activists aren't making them.



These three videos illustrate why legislatively mandating smaller magazines for semiautomatic firearms won't lower the death toll in mass shootings:

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This is an excerpt from the official report of the Virginia Tech Review Panel (http://www.governor.virginia.gov/tempcontent/techPanelReport-docs/FullReport.pdf):

"The panel also considered whether the previous federal Assault Weapons Act of 1994 that banned 15-round magazines would have made a difference in the April 16 incidents. The law lapsed after 10 years, in October 2004, and had banned clips or magazines with over 10 rounds. The panel concluded that 10-round magazines that were legal would have not made much difference in the incident. Even [revolvers] with rapid loaders could have been about as deadly in this situation."

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The Norris Hall massacre at Virginia Tech lasted between 10 and 12 minutes. During that time, the gunman fired approximately 174 rounds, killing 30 people and wounding 17 others. If his average reload time was three seconds, which is pretty easy to accomplish, the use of 10-round magazines instead of 15-round magazines would have increased his total shooting time by less than twenty seconds.