Folks,
It's been a long week and I'm brain-dead and could use your collective IQ re: mag bans.
The value of my IQ or my comments is always questionable, but here goes...
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You have as many chances to live as you have bullets in your gun.
When politicians arbitrarily impose limits upon magazine capacities, they impose an arbitrary value on the lives of their constituents, a value that is measured in bullets. They say, “You get this many bullets to protect your life. No more.
This is all that we allow.”
Once-upon-a-time our lives were worth as many bullets as it took to preserve them, and with whatever arms we desired. Now we are told our lives are worth only ten bullets. And in New York, our lives are worth three less. We have moved politically from a time of being allowed whatever we thought it might take (in 1925 you could order a Thompson submachine gun through the Sears catalogue for $175.00, with a choice of 20- and 30-round box, or 50- and 100-round drum, magazines) to a time of using only what our elected officials
allow us, eroding our freedom of choice.
The dangers of such erosion are plenty, but in plain, on-the-topic language, the central one is this: the dynamics of personal survival during lethal-force encounters has no fixed solution. Imposing fixed ammunition limits upon peaceful people will not save them from the violent. It materially inhibits their ability to counter violence with not merely the number of bullet they may rather have, but a number they may in fact
need. This need cannot be known. What we do know is this:
Shooting a bad guy multiple times may not stop him.
But shooting a bad guy multiple times stops him faster than shooting him less.
Anything that inhibits our ability to survive a fight for our lives is a deliberate harm to us and a material assistance to those who would do us harm.
To read a little bit more about what two men experienced with stopping bad guys with guns had to say about the topic, you may find my summary of their experience of interest here:
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?p=7298826#post7298826
Best of luck with your congresscritter conversation.