You don’t know much about guns if you think using an assault rifle to hunt kzinti would get you anything more than your head torn off by a slightly annoyed kzin.
I might agreed that a magazine cap might have some small measurable effect if there weren’t already tens of millions of these things floating around out there with absolutely no way to track them.
I might have agreed that it might even keep the number of these mazines at the current level if they werent so darn easy to make and with the new 3D printing you can build a magazine extender that will turn any magazine into a high capacity magazine if you switch out the springs.
The gun rights side merely has to present facts. I think that will probably be easier. Especially since the gun control folks are so bad at what they do.
If what can be done
Its all about shot placement. Even the Kzin need beating hearts to kill you.
The best bit…
Da fuck? Are you even trying to make sense?
Because I don’t need one? Like I said elsewhere, the only time my home was invaded by armed men, they had a warrant. And the fact that I’m more like Wavy Gravy than John Dillinger means I got an extra forty years of sex, drugs, rock 'n roll. Easy call. For me, that is.
Prefer round, jiggly and life-affirming. Cold, metallic, and potentially lethal kinda repels me. Funny that way.
Didn’t understand a word, did you? Maybe you could stop asking me questions when you can’t understand the answers?
Plenty of ways to commit suicide. Drinking everclear, using an ATV, swimming. All equally as effective as using a shotgun.
Nope, unagi. Know when someone is sneaking up behind me from 100 feet. Can disappear out of sight of them instantly. Substitute “can tell when someone is aiming a gun at me from behind and instantly draw and fire my weapon at them” if you desire.
You don’t get this game. The questions are irrelevant; the answer is always, “You are a gun grabber!!1!!1!”
And yet the NRA oppose independent research. Why do you suppose that is?
You are on record in that resurrected GD thread saying you liked alcohol an Everclear. I think you liked the Everclear so you could dissolve some pseudoscientific herbal remedies if I recall. You do this knowing that alcohol kills more people per year than guns, yet you are fine asking for one to be outlawed and not the other, apparently because you personally like one and not the other.
OK, I accept your personal reasons for not wanting one. How come you don’t accept others personal reasons for wanting one?
OK, I take it you have given up on your argument about better function. What makes a 30-30 more “life-affirming?” The lever action was once the state of the art life taker in this country and if I’m not mistaken was used to kill a lot of Native Americans. So maybe it’s more of a nostalgia thing for you?
No I understand you completely. You want (at least) the banning of “assault weapons” and normal capacity magazines just like Feinstein, you are just more pessimistic about it, but you are a gun-grabber just like her.
True there are lots of ways to commit suicide. In Australia when guns were banned, suicide by hanging more than made up the difference.
Because that might lead to background checks, which leads to registration, which leads to seizing guns: Gun Grabber!
Haven’t you heard of American Exceptionalism? Data from foreign countries doesn’t count, because we special.
Pretty good analysis. It is true that gun grabbers have poisoned their own well, which probably has to some degree hurt the cause of gun safety. But they sure sell a lot of AR15s. Heck, you can’t hardly get a revolver from Smith and Wesson right now because most resources are being directed at producing M&P rifles to keep up the the accelerated demand.
Sorry, I’m not a big fan. How about you?
Wait, don’t tell me, I know the answer! Gun Grabber!!1!1!!
Yes the slippery slope works with everything; just like the Defense of Marriage Act leads inexorably to concentration camps for gays.
Nah, you can have your rifles too, I’m feeling generous
That’s not what you told me earlier
I dunno, you brought up the uzi pistol, what makes that different from a non-black, Jewish weapon?
Everybody knows that. But not doing anything about it, to me, is flawed reasoning. We need to do something about gun violence and reducing firearms is a good start
How do we know Uzi is Jewish? Is his mom Jewish? Does he keep kosher?
The only defense against a bad oven with a mag…
Nothin’ says lovin’ like bullets in the oven.
I stole that joke from the Daily Kos’s weekly gun fail blog: GunFAIL VI
Only 47 this week.