{"id":1175,"date":"2011-02-01T14:07:21","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T18:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2011-02-01T14:07:21","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T18:07:21","slug":"hollow-arguments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/hollow-arguments\/","title":{"rendered":"HOLLOW ARGUMENTS"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a matter of days after the Tucson atrocity, we saw all manner of BS gun control arguments raised yet again. A case of simple minds seeking unworkably simplistic answers to complicated issues, and pointedly avoiding the real problems that need to be addressed. The London-based Economist <\/em>sniffed pompously that in no other civilized country would a private citizen be able to buy a Glock 19. This will come as a shock to my French, Italian, Belgian, and other friends overseas who legally own them. But when does truth ever get in the way of rhetoric? When does the snooty brie-and-chablis crowd miss a chance to bully what they perceive to be blue-collar rednecks who own firearms?<\/p>\n

The criminal use of extended magazines \u2013 that is, magazines that hold more cartridges than the gun was originally designed for \u2013 is exceedingly rare. I remember one case in the 90s with an AK47 clone and an oversize drum magazine. One from the \u201880s in which a cop-killer had an aftermarket 40-round magazine for a rifle designed for 30-round mags. From there, I\u2019d have to go back to the 1930s, when Dillinger and company had a few Colt semiautomatic pistols made up into full-automatic machine pistols with extended mags, by an outlaw gunsmith in Texas. (If I\u2019ve missed any, please point them out here.) By contrast, there are MANY cases where the good guys, cops and armed citizens alike, ran out of ammo and could have greatly benefited from extended magazine technology.<\/p>\n

Representative Carolyn McCarthy, who rode into Congress on public sympathy when her husband was murdered and her son wounded by a spree killer, has already introduced a new bill to ban not only extended magazines such as the 33-rounder the Tucson mass murderer used, but ordinary magazines of full capacity. She would limit us again to ten rounds, which did no good in the decade of the Clinton Assault Weapon ban, and will do no good if it passes again. The way it\u2019s worded, however, it will ban many ordinary sporting guns and magazines that have been in law-abiding American families for generations.<\/p>\n

I empathize with Representative McCarthy, and I understand her pain. But this is the lady who, when asked if she knew what a barrel shroud was \u2013 one of the evil \u201cassault rifle\u201d appurtenances she wanted to ban \u2013 replied that she thought it was something to do with the rear end of the gun.<\/p>\n

Sorry, but those who would pass legislation controlling law-abiding use of automobiles should, if they\u2019re not drivers themselves, at least know the hood from the trunk. When the lawmaker doesn\u2019t know her butt from her business end about the thing she would ban or even confiscate, it is Nature\u2019s way of telling us that, however well-intentioned and deserving of compassion she may be, she may not be the person to be making those laws.<\/p>\n

There is much more to discuss in regard to this issue, and many unintended consequences that can ripple outward from ill-advised, knee-jerk legislation. Right now, the \u201chigh capacity magazine ban solution\u201d seems as empty as an unloaded magazine.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll have more to say about it here soon\u2026but what have YOU to say on the matter?<\/p>\n

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