Her bill would ban high-capacity magazines... no word yet on what would constitute "high-capacity." The only guidance we have is that the 30 round magazine used by the murderer in Tucson would have been banned.
http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/01/10/5805421-mccarthy-lautenberg-seek-to-ban-high-capacity-ammo-magazines
Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., and Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y., with the backing of gun control groups, are drafting a bill that would ban the sale of high-capacity magazines such as the one that was used allegedly Saturday by Jared Lee Loughner, the man accused of murdering federal Judge John Roll and trying to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., according to two gun control activists working with McCarthy's staff.
"In the wake of these kind of incidents, the trick is to move quickly," said Kristen Rand, legislative director of the Violence Policy Center, one of the gun control groups working with McCarthy's office.
Yes, that's the strategy. Move quickly, ignore the victims and the real essence of the tragedy in order to exploit the situation to achieve a political goal. I'm hoping, here, that everyone else sees how cynical and self-serving that kind of attitude is... not to mention repulsive and ghoulish.
Basically...and I don't want to seem too sarcastic on this serious issue...but six dead folks are better than nineteen potential dead folks? Maybe in some concept of reasoning...this is acceptable. The problem that I see is that you can still RELOAD...and go for the next group.
ReplyDeleteConsidering how many big clips are out there in public hands and how many could easily be brought in via drug shipments and sold via your local illegal drug dealer...this really isn't much of a shift in strategy.