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Originally Posted by Ducimus
The thing about the gun control merry go round, is the longer you stay on it, the more vitriolic it becomes.
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The politicians behind gun control, and most of their supporters want ban stuff they know next to nothing about.
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Not to totally butcher your post, but I think that you are completely right about both of these things, and I think that most of the problem in the whole 'gun' argument stems from a combination of both. The environment is toxic, and people are staying in that toxic environment longer due to the fact that people are trying to pass laws about guns that don't know anything about them. Personally, I have next to no real knowledge about firearms. I know what a rifle and a handgun is. I understand caliber. I know the difference between a clip and a magazine. I have ideas about places where it is appropriate to carry a gun and where it isn't appropriate to do so. However, I do not know enough to hold an opinion of what ammunition capacity is adequate and what is overkill.
The arugment about capacity seems silly to me. A man carrying a small pistol with even one shot can kill another man, and dead is dead. Is a tragedy less of a tragedy because one person dies instead of two? Probably not to the family of the one that died. As I also understand it, a very small percentage of murders with firearms involve high-capacity weapons. They're big. They're unwieldy. Not great for carrying around concealed.