NRA finally meets its match: Why Richard Martinez should have them shaking

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95. Agreed - for the most part.

Easy access to high-capacity magazines makes it a lot easier to shoot a bunch of people in a short amount of time. So I'm happy to restrict purchases of those.

Back to the drunk driving analogy, though -- although drunk drivers do occasionally injure and kill people by driving into buildings or into crowds of pedestrians, they're mostly restricted to roads and streets. Malevolent shooters are a lot more mobile. So the scenarios in which they can inflict mayhem are more varied and harder to control. Therefore regulation of weapons and restrictions on their use require a different approach.

On a broader level, I think we all need to take a look at societies where firearm violence is less prevalent and determine how we can be more like them. Allowing everybody to be armed all the time with all the weaponry they want is not the answer. Neither is pretending that we can confiscate every weapon and create a violence-free utopia. I am interested in learning more about real solutions.