VikingsGuy
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I hear you, but I still see mass shootings, ARs and mag size as red herrings that drive TV ratings and political donations by both sides. I don't see any greater tragedy in a kid shot in school with an AR than a kid shot in the street on the way to school with a revolver. The real body count is with handguns for both murder and suicide and shotguns for suicide. I would prefer to focus on tens of thousands of deaths vs under a hundred.True. But the mass shootings that make national news typically involve high capacity magazines.
The 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting killed 20 children between six and seven years old, and 6 adult staff members.
The shooting involved 156 shots fired.
The 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting killed 61 and injured 867 with over 1,000 shots fired.
Most recently, the school shooting in Texas killed 21 with the shooter having seven 30-round magazines.
From a political perspective, limiting high capacity magazines may be likely target sooner or later.
There was a 10-year ban on "assault weapons" from 1994-2004.
From one perspective, one might argue that the ban did not solve the problem.
From a different perspective, one might argue that most mass shootings have involved high capacity magazines.