We DO Need Large Capacity Magazines

jerkingthetrigger.com ^ | 6 February, 2013 | JTR

[marktwain]

One of the most talked about components of gun control legislation is a magazine capacity limit. Proponents of gun control will often question why anyone needs more than X number of rounds (often 10) in their magazine. This is usually answered with a response about how it isn’t about what we “need” or with an analogy like “why does anyone need a car that goes faster than the speed limit.” Both of these answers are true but they leave a lot to be desired because there are practical reasons for why we actually do need magazines with larger capacities.

Many of the people who are proposing this legislation have an agenda beyond public safety so they are unlikely to listen to reason. However, there may be those who you come across in your everyday life that genuinely do want to know why someone might need magazine capacities of 10 or more. Much of their misunderstanding of why these higher capacities can be dispelled by addressing 3 main misconceptions/preconceived notions about the nature of terminal ballistics and what really happens in a gunfight:

People die immediately upon being shot.

It is easy to shoot a moving person.

You will face only a single attacker.

Many people, whether they realize it or not, are basing their perceptions of the “need” for larger capacity magazines based on these misconceptions/preconceived notions. These notions come from a number of sources but mostly from the various forms of media that we consume. Of course, it may also be true that they have never really given it much (if any) thought. Either way, this is a chance for the informed gun owner to politely engage someone in a conversation about the real world.

[EdReform]

Bookmark for later use. Thanks!

[EdReform]

HIGH CAPACITY MAGAZINE BAN for WHAT?

[longtermmemmory]

this assumes you have access to the spare magazine.

a night attack will only give a chance to grab ONE thing, and a spare magazine is not it.

[EnigmaticAnomaly]

Bookmarked for viewing after work.

[Oatka]

For practical purposes, a mass murderer with ten-round magazines is about as deadly as one with 20-round magazines.

Those proposing a magazine limit never heard of "jungle clips" or saw a photo of soldiers clipping two mags together for greater firepower:

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

I really enjoyed a bit I saw on Fox News recently about illegal immigrants. That libtard Conyers was calling illegal immigrants “New Americans” and “Out of Status Americans.”

Rather like calling a drug dealer an "Undocumented Pharmacist". It's these circumlocutions that are the stock in trade of liberal apologists.

Regards,
GtG