Posted on 01/02/2013 11:52:28 PM PST by neverdem
Senator Dianne Feinstein's latest divide-and-conquer attack on the Second Amendment has made even Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) a sucker for the argument that private citizens do not need high-capacity magazines. These include not only 30-round rifle magazines, but 17-round magazines for handguns like the Glock.
Why does anybody need a high capacity magazine? If Senator Manchin were to educate himself by, for example, attending Front Sight's four-day defensive handgun class, he would learn the two primary answers:
(1) Failure to stop the aggressor, and
(2) Multiple aggressors
Failure to Stop
The classic .38 caliber revolver, with a capacity of six rounds, was the standard sidearm of the United States Army during the Moro insurrection in the Philippines. The Army found at least one dead Army officer with an empty sidearm, and his head split open by a machete or similar weapon. They also found the soldier's killer, who had finally bled to death. Six rounds of .38 were therefore not enough to convince even one determined attacker.
Police instructor Masaad Ayoob's The Truth About Self Protection adds an incident in which a female police officer saw a crazed gunman murder a woman, who then shot her as well before she could do anything. "She lay helpless as she watched a neighbor empty a .22 rifle into the killer; the neighbor then had to club the madman down with the empty rifle, again and again, before he succumbed."
Ayoob does not report the size of the .22's magazine, but the Moro insurrection exemplifies why even a 30-round rifle clip might not be enough to stop a crazed and determined attacker, such as one hopped up on a drug like PCP. "He had 32 Krag balls through him and was only stopped by the 33rd bullet -- a Colt .45 slug through..."...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
NEED is a trap that gives the govt an excuse to ban anything not “needed”. I have lots of things I dont need and it’s none of the f’in govt business.
I need a high capacity magazine because I’m not a very good shot and possibly, just possibly, that extra round will fend off anyone trying to do harm to me or my family.
why do Ineed a 30 round magazine? Because they don’t make 50 round magazines.
I need a high capacity magazine because I’m not a very good shot and possibly, just possibly, that extra round will fend off anyone trying to do harm to me or my family.
why do Ineed a 30 round magazine? Because they don’t make 50 round magazines.
Because I want one and the constitution protects my rkba. No other answer is necessary and frankly is none of the govt business
Why do those who let fear rule their lives assume that the 1.5 seconds it takes to reload a magazine will do anything useful?
(It surely didn't slow down Adam Lanza. He fired MANY more than 30 shots. He brought additional magazines, because he wanted to fire more than 30 shots. That doesn't take a genius to figure out. Clearly this huge push for magazine limitations isn't for safety. So what is it about, dear Liberal friends? If you answer anything other than "Control", you're likely wrong yet again.)
Exactly!
The guns they want to do away with are optimized for fighting. If they are trying to limit your ability to fight, when you are not fighting, what does that tell you?
Vairy Finnay!
Ding, ding, ding!
Because 40 round mags are hard to find.
Well, so are 30s these days...
I'll assume it's already been said, but of course we don't have a Bill of Needs. Refreshing to say it.
The easy answer: “...because I can’t find a 40-round magazine.”
Exactamundo.
why do we need 100 senators when ONE dictator can do the job?
Why do we need a NYC or an LA or a San Francisco when people can easily be forced to live in small villages?
Why do we need so many universities when just one Harvard does such a wonderful job?
It's not terribly relevant to the article, but still a very interesting note that the Moros were and are a particularly nasty bunch of violent mohammedan radical terrorists.
Because reloading cuts into your fun time.
Why does a bear crap in the woods? Because (gr) it is his natural given birthright and until someone changes that by forcibly putting him in a cage thats what he is going to do.
It is DEFINITELY time for “common sense press control.” After all, the First Amendment was meant to protect only the single-sheet manual printing press, not today’s 200-page, color publications or the internet or the web or TV or movies.
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