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In reply to the discussion: A sad gun nut reality [View all]Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)making children more likely to suffer a gun-related injury. I seriously doubt these injuries are a result of 15 or more rounds being expended. In fact, I'll hazard a guess it overwhelmingly involves a single round being fired. Since that was the focus of your conversation and you complained that any parent that dosen't support a capacity restriction doesn't love their children I wanted to inquire as to why the magazine capacity restriction was supposed to alleviate your concern.
And capacity limitations would do no good as demonstrated at the VT tragedy and others --
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/mass-shootings-mother-jones-full-data
Spree killers, by their nature, get to reload and most of the weapons listed aren't 30-round capable, i.e. pistols and shotguns. Even Lanza reloaded prior to exhausting his magazines (My husband surmises it was from a habit developed playing video games).
uh huh
So do you support in principle the registration of alcoholic beverages and sale capacity limits to curb underaged drinking fatalities as the number of children killed weekly by underaged drinking is equivalent to 4.5 Sandy Hook tragedies?
Or do you hate children?