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nothing can prevent future attacks. the goal is to stop criminals getting guns and reduce fatalities moondog Send a noteboard - 18/04/2013 06:07:32 PM

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Additionally your assertion that his reloading of his weapon allowed children to escape is not accurate. There are assumptions that this MAY be the case, but no official word yet from the police. Additionally, even the sories that make this assertion state that it was eithter his weapopn jamming, or him making an ERROR while reloading that allowed them time. Changing the magazine on a firearm (barring error) is an action of at most a couple seconds and will not give anyone time for a meaningful action. With practice there are many people who can change magazines so rapidly you won't even notice them doing so. Lanza reloaded frequently leaving many partially full magazines behind.

if changing magazines is so easy, why are you opposed to limiting their size? obviously you can just swap in another 10 rounds when you need more bullets without even thinking about it, so if it's so easy to do you should not be against changing the capacity.

conversely, when a majority of guns used in crimes are proven to be from straw sales, it should be a no-brainer that making straw sales to be a federal crime should be easy to pass. it should also be a no-brainer to extend background checks to all purchases with no exceptions because it has been proven time and again that criminals go for the easy route when it comes to buying guns, and that means buying guns for which there are no checks, and buying guns from straw sales. but the recent failure to pass any regulations proves we'd rather protect the rights of criminals to buy guns rather than protect the citizenry from those criminals.

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Obama embarrassed - Senate Gun Control Bill Fails..... - 18/04/2013 03:51:37 AM 926 Views
More importantly, they failed becasue it was just knee-jerk "must do something publicly" BS. - 18/04/2013 01:55:43 PM 490 Views
there is no law anywhere which can undo the past - 18/04/2013 03:12:14 PM 447 Views
Let me rephrase... None of them could have prevented a FUTURE attack. - 18/04/2013 04:37:43 PM 991 Views
nothing can prevent future attacks. the goal is to stop criminals getting guns and reduce fatalities - 18/04/2013 06:07:32 PM 390 Views
lol. I can't believe you made thatargument - 18/04/2013 08:46:45 PM 540 Views
+1 - This is "feel good" legislation that accomplishes nothing..... *NM* - 18/04/2013 06:06:07 PM 267 Views
yep. republican obstructionism and cowardice knows no bounds.... - 18/04/2013 03:07:46 PM 465 Views
- 18/04/2013 03:15:15 PM 520 Views
You're being rather partisan here. And wrong to denigrate Republicans. - 18/04/2013 03:55:34 PM 542 Views
sorry, who is the minority party again? it's not the democrats - 18/04/2013 06:19:43 PM 526 Views
moondog is funny when his side is losing..... - 18/04/2013 06:55:07 PM 426 Views
So does your ignorance on how your government process functions. - 18/04/2013 04:46:53 PM 433 Views
don't play dumb, you are better than that - 18/04/2013 06:24:22 PM 413 Views
"an important" is not at all the same thing as "the most important." - 18/04/2013 04:10:47 PM 590 Views
I agree, BS polling like this (by either side) annoys me. - 18/04/2013 04:56:44 PM 376 Views
actually..... - 18/04/2013 06:25:31 PM 524 Views
It is a silly poll - 18/04/2013 09:21:25 PM 528 Views

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