What I'm about to say is going to sound ridiculous to you. I acknowledge that.
Ready?
Thr leading cause of school shooting DEATHS is---- birth. If these kids weren't born, they wouldn't have been murdered.
Now-- what I said is 100% true-- if they were never born, they'd have never died. 100% factual statement.
YES--- it sounds stupid.
But when you say to me that magazine capacity in guns can lead to more casualties-- I agree. It can. But your argument sounds "silly" to me just as I'm sure my example sounded "silly" to you.
Why?
Well, because of human nature-- something, like birth, that simply can not be avoided. We have 300,000 years of caveman in us that is not changing anytime soon.
"What are you babbling about Clob?"
The number of bullets the gun holds doesn't matter.
The desire to kill does. Give me some fertilizer and diesel and I'll show you how to dwarf the 22 casualty mark.
Look at Oklahoma City.
The largest school casualty event in US history (Michigan) was done with dynamite.
Just this past Feb during the Afghan airport cluster fvck, a suicide bomber blew himself up killing 13 US Marines and--- wait for it-- 170 Afghan civilians.
13 + 170 = 183
183 >>>> 22
So please, I get it-- what you said IS true. But at the end of the day-- killers gonna kill.
Point taken, and I agree. If someone wants to kill people, they're going to find a way to do it whether it's guns, vehicles, knives, bombs, chemicals, fire, etc. We have a mental health problem with people today. Guns have been around for a long time. If guns were the issue, this kind of thing would have been happening many years ago. Guns are not the issue here. It's people.