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I disagree that all guns have similar potential, a small pistol should have small magazine capacity so a killer would need to perform a reload , at this time s

I disagree that all guns have similar potential, a small pistol should have small magazine capacity so a killer would need to perform a reload , at this time someone could stop him, you can make this small , self protection guns have a long reload time by design. Small caliber bullets have obvious smaller killing potential in my mind, please let me know if my intuition is wrong but a small bullet would have less energy, so it will have a larger drop so it won't be effective on large distance. What is ironic is that I read here on HN an article about some type of knives that are illegal in New York, so is a bit ironic you can forbid some knives but not some guns(or at least make it harder for people to obtain them)

javagram 7y ago
What I am saying is that although such speculations may even seem like common sense, they have been disproven by contact with reality. (Edit: to add, small weapons are much easier to conceal than a long gun like a rifle or shotgun, and are therefore vastly better for the majority of criminals to use. Homicides from mass shootings are relatively rare and are an example where concealing the weapon isn’t necessarily needed, so large weapons like rifles are a bit more represented there). Edit 2: I guess I would just add again, yes a .22 caliber bullet is smaller and has less impact than a rifle bullet, however, pistols and handguns do kill and are constantly used. Reloading does not take long and even revolvers have “speed loaders”. Range does not matter for the majority of these mass shootings are committed at close range. Here is an example of “small pistols” that were in the top 10 most used guns by criminals. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_night_special https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_night_special > Nonetheless, three of the top ten types of guns involved in crime (as represented by police trace requests[4]) in the US are widely considered to be Saturday night specials; as reported by the ATF in 1993, these included the Raven Arms .25 caliber, Davis P-380 .380 caliber, and Lorcin L 380 .380 caliber
- simion314 7y ago
  I am talking about mass shootings not small ones, like the guy snipping people from a tall building window, people with more then one big weapon, this people would do less damage with a small gun. About statistics you can make them to show what you want, I assume if you extend to all the shootings not only the mass ones you get more small guns because probably there are much more small guns around. About fast reloaders, you can have laws for those too.

javagram 7y ago

What I am saying is that although such speculations may even seem like common sense, they have been disproven by contact with reality. (Edit: to add, small weapons are much easier to conceal than a long gun like a rifle or shotgun, and are therefore vastly better for the majority of criminals to use. Homicides from mass shootings are relatively rare and are an example where concealing the weapon isn’t necessarily needed, so large weapons like rifles are a bit more represented there). Edit 2: I guess I would just add again, yes a .22 caliber bullet is smaller and has less impact than a rifle bullet, however, pistols and handguns do kill and are constantly used. Reloading does not take long and even revolvers have “speed loaders”. Range does not matter for the majority of these mass shootings are committed at close range. Here is an example of “small pistols” that were in the top 10 most used guns by criminals. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_night_special https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_night_special > Nonetheless, three of the top ten types of guns involved in crime (as represented by police trace requests[4]) in the US are widely considered to be Saturday night specials; as reported by the ATF in 1993, these included the Raven Arms .25 caliber, Davis P-380 .380 caliber, and Lorcin L 380 .380 caliber

simion314 7y ago
I am talking about mass shootings not small ones, like the guy snipping people from a tall building window, people with more then one big weapon, this people would do less damage with a small gun. About statistics you can make them to show what you want, I assume if you extend to all the shootings not only the mass ones you get more small guns because probably there are much more small guns around. About fast reloaders, you can have laws for those too.