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The same reason that the FBI (and other policing administrations) did away with the service revolver. There's actual a distinct tragedy where some FBI agents di
by ducktales 4y ago
The same reason that the FBI (and other policing administrations) did away with the service revolver. There's actual a distinct tragedy where some FBI agents died in a firefight that spurred this, apologies for lack of citation - it is late.
It is scarily easy to miss, even at physically close distances, when fighting for one's life.
I feel most people that haven't shot a gun, or have only shot a gun while sitting perfectly still and undistracted, underestimate the above fact.
If you do have access to guns and the ability to test this, do some sort of exercise to get yourself breathing heavily before shooting, you'll see the difference.
All of this presupposes that we agree the average citizen has the right to defend their life with adequate tools. Some may, with good statistical arguments at hand, determine that the likelihood of being a victim of violent crime does not meet the threshold for allowing this level of self defense.
I hope that partially answers your question
- multjoy 4y agoHow many firefights do you expect a civilian gun owner to get into?
- Rebelgecko 4y agoStatistically, around 0.005 per year (note that there's a HUGE range of estimates for how common defensive gun use is, so there's definitely some error bars there). However that's still many orders of magnitude more than the average number of mass shootings that the average civilian gun owner is involved with.
- multjoy 4y agoSo realistically the actual need for a large capacity magazine is zero?
- Rebelgecko 4y agoThe number of people who have used 10+ round magazines for self defense is greater than zero.
- multjoy 4y agoUsed, or needed?
- pirate787 4y agoWho cares? It is a foundational human right. I don't have to prove my "need" for freedom of religion or speech, or right to bear arms.
- ahtihn 4y agoWhy is it a foundational human right? Who decides that? It seems to me that a lot of people disagree. Human rights only exist because enough people believe in them. All of them, including free speech are up for debate and constantly need to be defended.
- Rebelgecko 4y agoBoth
- cebert 4y agoI think part of the intention of the Second Amendment is to have a well-armed population that has the capability to push back against a government that has overstepped. Five or ten rounds isn’t going to help much there.
- magicalhippo 4y agoThe need for a magazine is close to zero, but if you need one, you probably need, or would have a significantly improved outcome with, a 10+ magazine.
- ahh 4y agoI don't know anyone whose house has burned down. Should I cancel my home insurance?
- GiorgioG 4y ago> It is scarily easy to miss, even at physically close distances, when fighting for one's life. In my state it's required to qualify at a gun range in order to obtained a concealed carry permit. When my turn came I experienced a huge adrenaline rush. I did hit the target adequately but was surprised at how difficult it was under pressure. I've never experienced this before when going to the range and casually shooting. I expect in a real world scenario where the assailant is not a static paper target, you're more likely to miss than not.
- rascul 4y ago> There's actual a distinct tragedy where some FBI agents died in a firefight that spurred this, apologies for lack of citation - it is late. I think this is it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_FBI_Miami_shootout https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_FBI_Miami_shootout