Of Children and of Guns.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

17. You said:

"Where ar-15 rifles and 30 round magazines are concerned, 30 rounds is standard capacity of the magazines they hold. If you wanted to ban mags over 30 I doubt you'd get any resistance at all. But lowering it to ten? Not likely."

Then get rid of the fuckers.

I sit astonished at the need for such a gun in the private sphere. I mean, really, astonished.

It's just simple plain, common sense. No need to "speak their language", or get into the technical intracasies and terminology of the various types of guns.

This is not a hostage negotiation. We shouldn't have to negotiate and coax our way with owners of weapons that have no practical purpose in the every day world. We are not the ones doing the damage here.

If all one owns is a bolt action shotgun for hunting or a handgun with a 10 round capacity for protection purposes, they aren't having those weapons taken away, nor are they prohibited from buying another.

I understand that this is all complicated by the political aspect. I also, quite reluctantly, am very bearish about the chances that this meaningful reform will pass, given the stranglehold on our politicians that the gun lobby possesses.

At this point it is more just a situation of basic common sense and decency that too many people have forgotten, and where it--in the words of Marvin Gaye--"makes me want to holler and throw up both my hands."