Re: Days Since Last Shooting II
If a single shot is impractical, we can go back to 5 or 6. Since the 6 shooter is deeply rooted in American history, 6 is a good number. Any weapon that holds more than that is too much. There's no reasonable reason a skilled shooter will need more than 6 rounds to accomplish what they need to do.
Second, put a real limit on how fast a fire arm can re-fire. Again, lets go back and take a good look at the 6 shooter, and then define that no weapon available to the public can shoot faster than that. Now I know many will say that this can't be done, and I say BS. It's just a mechanical device, which can be rate limited very easily. Any thing that increases that rate of fire is not legal at all.
Both of those steps would have very much reduced the number of shots that got off in Las Vegas. Maybe not because he could not just get around them, but the difficulty in getting around those limits would have likely reduced the ABILITY of people to make the changes on the scale that this guy did. Skilled machinists are not nearly as common as people think, and when you put major laws against public ones, it also reduces the resources people have to modify weapons.
We can add more background checks, but what in the world do we do with them? Unless there's a real mechanism to share and be able to use that info, they are only partially useful. The whole mental health issue is funny- since it gets brought up as an add after big shootings, but then it gets attacked as it's anti-2nd Amendment at other times.
BTW, there was an interesting time line in Time- showing that the low point in mass shootings happened during the assault weapons ban era. Shocking. Once that ended, the number and the scale took a sharp upturn. The data looks pretty clear that the ban and it's lifting had a significant impact. So laws like I have proposed work, even in the US where we have a gun fetish. And it's fair to note that the assault weapons ban was LEGAL- it's not that it was overturned by the SCOTUS, it's life was finite, and it ended. When you have such an arbitrary law like that was, the laws that I propose are easily legal.
If a single shot is impractical, we can go back to 5 or 6. Since the 6 shooter is deeply rooted in American history, 6 is a good number. Any weapon that holds more than that is too much. There's no reasonable reason a skilled shooter will need more than 6 rounds to accomplish what they need to do.
Second, put a real limit on how fast a fire arm can re-fire. Again, lets go back and take a good look at the 6 shooter, and then define that no weapon available to the public can shoot faster than that. Now I know many will say that this can't be done, and I say BS. It's just a mechanical device, which can be rate limited very easily. Any thing that increases that rate of fire is not legal at all.
Both of those steps would have very much reduced the number of shots that got off in Las Vegas. Maybe not because he could not just get around them, but the difficulty in getting around those limits would have likely reduced the ABILITY of people to make the changes on the scale that this guy did. Skilled machinists are not nearly as common as people think, and when you put major laws against public ones, it also reduces the resources people have to modify weapons.
We can add more background checks, but what in the world do we do with them? Unless there's a real mechanism to share and be able to use that info, they are only partially useful. The whole mental health issue is funny- since it gets brought up as an add after big shootings, but then it gets attacked as it's anti-2nd Amendment at other times.
BTW, there was an interesting time line in Time- showing that the low point in mass shootings happened during the assault weapons ban era. Shocking. Once that ended, the number and the scale took a sharp upturn. The data looks pretty clear that the ban and it's lifting had a significant impact. So laws like I have proposed work, even in the US where we have a gun fetish. And it's fair to note that the assault weapons ban was LEGAL- it's not that it was overturned by the SCOTUS, it's life was finite, and it ended. When you have such an arbitrary law like that was, the laws that I propose are easily legal.
