Yet the answer is to attack the rights of the law abiding in the name of “public safety”.
If they can’t even manage to get something as simple as a background check right how are they supposed to get the over 300 million legal firearms collected since there is no record of who owns them or where most of them are?
He was a Felon … he could not legally possess a gun. However, law enforcement is partially culpable … they knew he had illegally acquired the gun, contacted him to turn it in, but never followed up on it to confiscate it.
The bolded words from your post that I responded to were “near auto firing rates.” Nothing in that about “high-capacity magazines.”
But since you brought it up, what is a high-capacity magazine in your mind? How many rounds did the magazine in pistol he used hold? Would it have made a difference to the unarmed victims had he used two “low-capacity” magazines?
By the way, you are also using the term “strawman” incorrectly.
C. “high-capacity magazines” = oh, let’s say more than 5 rounds for an AR-15. A 2A’er on here suggested that banning 30-round banana clips would be pointless, because a shooter can eject and insert a new clip in 0.5 seconds. (Really. ) So you wouldn’t have time to rush him during a reload.
Fine. If the high school is attacked by a Ranger, they’re screwed. But I’m guessing most suicidal ostracized HS boys, or deranged gun-toting loners, won’t have the nerves or motor skills under pressure to do that. So, on one of the 5 reloads required when your 30-round clip is replaced by my 5-round clip, some brave student or teacher may take him down. So only one life, or 10, or 30 is saved. Good enough for me.