Reply #12: Rachel Maddow uses common sense to gun control.

[JohnnyRingo]

She and her girlfriend spent their first date at an NRA sponsored "Ladies Day at the Gun Range", so I don't believe anyone can say she's exactly in the anti-gun lobby. Instead, she advocates strict screening and regulating the ability for one person to become an unstoppable assault force. Like myself and local gun shop owners across the country, she would also like an end to carpet bagging gun dealers who come to town for the weekend and blow town with the local's money before anyone knows who bought their wares.

I'm old and a lifetime gun owner, and I remember when registration laws were much stricter than they are now and I didn't feel less free then. Of course I also recall when I could buy one through mail order, but there was a time not so long ago that interstate transportation was much more regulated. Dealers could sell guns only in the state they were licensed and unlicensed owners could only purchase weapons in their home state. Banning Hi-cap mags wouldn't take them away from collectors or make the millions of existing magazines illegal, it'll just stop future production of an accessory needed only for massacre by an army of one.