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2016 Postmortem

TeddyR

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2. What's the justification

Reply to bigtree (Original post)

Thu Oct 1, 2015, 07:59 AM

Oct 2015

For a limit on the number of rounds a magazine can hold? If 10 is good why not 2 (or 11, or 9 or whatever)? Limiting to 10 is simply plucking a random number out of thin air.

There's zero chance that a red state will adopt these types of laws, and little chance a purple state like Virginia, Colorado or North Carolina will. In fact, the clear trend nationwide is to relax gun control laws.

And O'Malley's laws REALLY helped in Baltimore this year -- Google "Baltimore murder rate 2015" and you get results like "Baltimore's homicide explosion" and "Baltimore's homicide rate reaches ALL-TIME HIGH."

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Gun safety provisions Gov. O'Malley enacted in Maryland introduced as legislation in Congress [View all] bigtree Oct 2015 OP

kick bigtree Oct 2015 #1

What's the justification TeddyR Oct 2015 #2

what we need is national reform bigtree Oct 2015 #3

They're doing wonders in CT. Chan790 Oct 2015 #4

It will die in some committee Lurks Often Oct 2015 #5