Big black weapons are a lot scarier and easier to be banned because less people own them and they look more lethal. A lot of people own handguns in this country. Going after them would get you absolutely nowhere.
It's funny. A lot of the mass shootings that happen in this nation happen with little .22 caliber semi-automatic pistol with 10-12 round magazines.
Caliber and how many rounds your gun carries doesn't mean squat really. Most people can't hit jack squat after 50 feet even with an extremely accurate rifle. When they are in a rampage accuracy goes to hell. Even US soldiers in combat have like a 1 to 10,000 bullet hit ratio. Yes, that's 10,000 bullets for every enemy kill. At the point-blank ranges that the vast majority of shootings happen, caliber is completely irrelevant.
Doesn't even matter how many bullets you have in your gun. In the past people just carried multiple magazines and could fire off just as many rounds as if they were carrying higher capacity magazines. 3 smaller 10 round magazines can be loaded and fired nearly as quickly as a single 30 round magazine. This is something most non-gun owners don't understand. It's not hard to reload a magazine. You lose maybe a half a second of time inbetween reloads. Fire 9 rounds, pop the mag out, pop a fresh one in, keep firing. Don't even have to recock the thing. So in the end it doesn't make any sense to ban "hich capacity" magazines. They don't increase or decrease your performance. They are just yet another thing that people believe will somehow change the outcome of a shooting.
There is no easy solution, despite what a lot of politicians and the media is trying to convey.
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