Magazine Capacity Restrictions, Useless!
Dave Champion & Bill Carns put together a great video explaining how laws limited firearm magazine capacity have no real effect on saving lives. They simulated shooting 14 targets using a 17 round magazine and also using two 8 round magazines. The difference was less than two seconds. See Video Below.
This website says some good stuff: “Anyone saying that ‘magazine capacity restrictions’ would have ‘prevented’ the outrage at Safeway is either barely brighter than a turnip or being fundamentally dishonest… If magazines were limited to ten rounds, then you’re okay with ten corpses. If it was just a six-shooter, you’ve got six cooling bodies to clean up on aisle three. Even single-shot flintlocks (you know, like the kind you always say the “founding fathers could envision”) leave Congresswoman Giffords on the same ventilator as Gaston Glock’s latest offering. So by saying you’re in favor of magazines that hold no more than X rounds, you’re publicly stating that it’s only X+1 bodies that bother you. If that’s not what you mean to say, then come out and state your real intentions.”
Something else that we’re glad Dave and Bill mentioned in the video, which is a common myth, is that police are supposed to protect you and come to your aid. In fact, the supreme count has ruled, law enforcement has no legal responsibility to have to provide police protection to any citizen of the United States. – Let that sink in for a minute!
