Message #329062

[KnightsFan]

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The main subject people are arguing for is banning "assault rifles" and "high capacity magazines," as well as having better background checks. I am in favor of the background checks. However, banning assault rifles is almost pointless, because right now, assault rifles are used in approximately 3% of gun related deaths. More people (in the US) are killed with knives than all rifles and shotguns put together.

Banning high capacity magazines wouldn't do much, because a magazine is literally a box with a spring that can feed bullets into a gun. Take any magazine, cut the bottom off, and use wood to extend it, and you've got a bigger magazine (except for revolvers, which make up the majority of guns used anyway). It's really not hard, and I don't see anyone being able to actually do anything about that.

Those two together make any gun laws we pass incredibly pointless, except to infringe upon people who want guns for fun/hunting, which make up the vast majority of gun owners. What we really need is some way to change our society so that people no longer wish to commit murder, which has been happening, but too slowly.