“[Reloading new magazines into a gun more often] is really not the end of the world, but it is the end of the world when you lose a child or a loved one.” – New Jersey State Sen. President Steve Sweeney, quoted in Steve Sweeney recall campaign over ammo magazine capacity locked, loaded by gun rights advocates [via nj.com]
reloading new mags into the gun more often won’t slow a killer down or change the equation one small bit. So the laws written to restrict mag limits are nothing but harassment of honest gun owners.
The answer to, “After all, if it only saves one life, isn’t it worth it?” is very often, “No, it’s not.”.
From TFA:
“”These mass shooters … when they’re stopped, it is often at the point where they have to reload that they can be overwhelmed. It’s better that point be reached after 10 bullets than 15,” said Miller. ”
Hey, Miller, isn’t that because these shooters you are talking about attack in gun free zones so that one pretty much HAS to wait until they stop shooting to fight back and have a chance?
Bryan Miller, I suggest you consider the possibility that the active shooter be stopped sooner if engaged by someone with a fighting chance (ie, armed with a gun) as soon as he starts shooting.
You know, like has happened many times, but goes under reported because it does not fit your narrow minded narrative. For example, check out the Arapahoe High School shooting where Deputy Englert ended the assault before the bad guy to the point of needing to reload.
http://bearingarms.com/good-guy-with-a-gun-armed-school-officer-stopped-arapahoe/
Back in the day poor people in the Caribbean (Jibaros) could not afford guns or swords, but everyone had a machete. And they were at times used for honorable duels. The duelers were bound to each other by a piece of rope about 3-feet long, and then let loose to have at it.
I kid you not. Google Guazabara info.
‘Reloading new magazines into a gun more often’ isn’t the issue, nor is magazine capacity. Crazed individuals who are determined to go on a killing spree are the issue. 1. Mentally disturbed people most likely won’t follow silly little laws that inconvenience the rest of us (not to mention being 2A infringemts), and 2. Even if they do follow silly little laws, that’s not the end of the world as Sweeney says – it will simply serve as a minor inconvenience for a crazed shooter. They’ll empty a mag regardless of capacity, drop it & put in another & empty it . . . unless a good guy with a gun is nearby & takes action to stop it.
Is that quote even English? I have no idea what he is trying to say.
I would say he absolutely proved how safe guns are when they are not loaded, by showing the opposite. “See, this is what happens when the gun is not verified as unloaded – BANG!!!” Makes sense.
OK, everyone stay with me here for a moment. It’s gonna be a rough ride.
For a brief moment in time, let’s assume that the trope the anti-gun people are saying is true. (No laughing!) That the mere presence of a gun creates a dangerous situation, and that we gun owners, who LOVE us some guns, are simply time bombs looking for the slightest provocation (Make my day bitches!) to start shootin and scootin. Following their own logic and arguments, I am finding it very difficult to understand how any of them are still alive. I mean, here we are “clinging to our guns and god” and they’re messing with our core beliefs, so it follows that (statistically speaking) someone, somewhere, should have already “gone off” and started sending lead downrange to eliminate the threats to the “belief system” as it were.
What I don’t get is how anyone buys into their arguments.
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The way I see it, this guy just made himself culpable in the death of the first person shot over this. The Nuremberg defense did not work there and it won’t work here.
Notice how Kustra conveniently ignores the 9th Circuit decision (Peruta v. San Diego) that says you cannot “regulate” a right out of existence? All the Idaho universities can do now to people carrying guns on campus is ask you to leave, and trespass you if you do not leave (if you are not a student). If you are a student or faculty member, they can expel/fire you, under the guise of “regulating” guns on campus.
And if he is so concerned about guns on campus, why doesn’t he have armed campus cops and metal detectors on his “gun free” campus now? Because he doesn’t really care about the safety of the “university community”, he just is wetting his panties over the idea that he cannot continue be a dictator in his little ivory tower. So far, the only recent university shooting in Idaho was an Idaho State professor (in Moscow, ID) who killed a female graduate student that he had been screwing.
Maybe Kustra is worried about female students being able to defend themselves from the faculty.
What is really bugging the few Idaho libs about this bill is that it is a conservative litmus test for the GOP candidates in the upcoming primary election. Our Governor is facing a more-conservative challenger, so when this bill hits Gov. Otter’s desk he will either sign it or be tossed out in the primary. Love it.
Btw, “Turn the other cheek” is interpreted in different meanings.
Believe what you want to. BTW …why are vile attacks on this website allowed pertaining to Christian beliefs?
I love the M1 Carbine. Former Marine here. I actually shoot better with the iron sights than with a scope for the range of this rifle. The reloading of this cartridge is easy and once in a while I need to trim. I anneal the brass occasionally and that keeps the brass going. The price of .30 carbine is not what others are showing any longer so I am guessing these entries a bit old. Now-a-days the price of FMJ 110 grain .30 carbine is closer to $34/box of 50. That’s why I reload now. Reloading is ez pz with this cartridge and I use IMR 4227 for the powder. I’m now trying to hunt down a hand-gun. I’ve looked at the blackhawk but just saw the Excel Arms 30p and thought that was pretty nifty.
“charged with having their face masked”, but not assault… WTF?