Another Goddamn Mass Shooting

[Loren Pechtel]

Most mass shooters are only stopped by a gun--whether at the hands of the police, or at their own hands when the authorities are closing in. This guy was still armed--he very well might have been going to shoot someone else. (It appears his primary target wasn't at church that day--he might have been going to her house.) Thus engaging him was a good thing to do. This guy was a hero.

Oh glob, he could have killed 27 instead of 26 people!!! The good guy with a gun came late to the party.

The problem I have with the hero narrative is that this atrocity was preventable, however, was allowed thanks to the NRA lobbying that allows guns like these to exist and magazines of 30 bullets to exist. The hero narrative is to try and spin some kind of wonder out of what was yet another mass killing that didn't have to happen.

The magazine capacity is irrelevant unless there is active resistance--and there was none.

The hero intervened, nobody got hurt but the bad guy. That's a lot better outcome than even one more death.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Oh glob, he could have killed 27 instead of 26 people!!! The good guy with a gun came late to the party.

The problem I have with the hero narrative is that this atrocity was preventable, however, was allowed thanks to the NRA lobbying that allows guns like these to exist and magazines of 30 bullets to exist. The hero narrative is to try and spin some kind of wonder out of what was yet another mass killing that didn't have to happen.

The magazine capacity is irrelevant unless there is active resistance--and there was none.

The hero intervened, nobody got hurt but the bad guy. That's a lot better outcome than even one more death.

Maybe your wife told you size doesn't matter, but when it comes to gun magazines a 10 bullet magazine verses 30 bullet magazine does matter.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

The magazine capacity is irrelevant unless there is active resistance--and there was none.

The hero intervened, nobody got hurt but the bad guy. That's a lot better outcome than even one more death.

Maybe your wife told you size doesn't matter, but when it comes to gun magazines a 10 bullet magazine verses 30 bullet magazine does matter.

It only matters in that reloading gives your victims a chance to jump you if they're close enough. With practice you can reload a semi-auto very quickly, it's not a substantial impediment to shooting people.

 

[bilby]

Maybe your wife told you size doesn't matter, but when it comes to gun magazines a 10 bullet magazine verses 30 bullet magazine does matter.

It only matters in that reloading gives your victims a chance to jump you if they're close enough. With practice you can reload a semi-auto very quickly, it's not a substantial impediment to shooting people.

In the real world, people are too busy losing control of their excretory functions to calmly determine that the rational course of action is to attack the gunman with their bare hands. As you would be too, despite whatever comforting myths you choose to tell yourself from the safety of your keyboard.

'Die Hard' is fiction, and Bruce Willis is just an actor.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

It only matters in that reloading gives your victims a chance to jump you if they're close enough. With practice you can reload a semi-auto very quickly, it's not a substantial impediment to shooting people.

In the real world, people are too busy losing control of their excretory functions to calmly determine that the rational course of action is to attack the gunman with their bare hands. As you would be too, despite whatever comforting myths you choose to tell yourself from the safety of your keyboard.

'Die Hard' is fiction, and Bruce Willis is just an actor.

My point is 10 round cartridges reduce the number of bullets without a pause to reload. The more reloads, the more chances to get the shooter if possible, and chances for the damn mini WMD to jam.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Maybe your wife told you size doesn't matter, but when it comes to gun magazines a 10 bullet magazine verses 30 bullet magazine does matter.

It only matters in that reloading gives your victims a chance to jump you if they're close enough. With practice you can reload a semi-auto very quickly, it's not a substantial impediment to shooting people.

In the real world, people are too busy losing control of their excretory functions to calmly determine that the rational course of action is to attack the gunman with their bare hands. As you would be too, despite whatever comforting myths you choose to tell yourself from the safety of your keyboard.

'Die Hard' is fiction, and Bruce Willis is just an actor.

1) I'm pretty sure the character from Die Hard is special forces.

2) People do sometimes fight back successfully.

3) If people don't fight back then magazine capacity doesn't matter as reloading doesn't impede the shooter.

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It only matters in that reloading gives your victims a chance to jump you if they're close enough. With practice you can reload a semi-auto very quickly, it's not a substantial impediment to shooting people.

In the real world, people are too busy losing control of their excretory functions to calmly determine that the rational course of action is to attack the gunman with their bare hands. As you would be too, despite whatever comforting myths you choose to tell yourself from the safety of your keyboard.

'Die Hard' is fiction, and Bruce Willis is just an actor.

My point is 10 round cartridges reduce the number of bullets without a pause to reload. The more reloads, the more chances to get the shooter if possible, and chances for the damn mini WMD to jam.

Bigger magazines mean more jams.