Active Shooter Event Near Texas A&M

[mongers]

Well what about my suggestion - limit magazine size to 5-6 bullets for hand guns.  Make possession of a larger size illegal, but with a lengthy grace period and refund/voucher when you turn in an over-size magazine.  Hard to go on a shooting rampage if you need to constantly reload - but it still gives you the firepower you need in self-defence.

And while the Sikh Temple was hand guns, lots of other ASEs are from semi-automatic rifles.

Vastly more people are killed by knives every year in the US than by all non-handgun classes of fire arms combined.  I am just questioning the strategy of engaging in what would almost certainly be a long, expensive, and sure to fail political effort that in the end will not have that big of an impact on saving lives.  Besides gun violence has been declining for years.

But that's not saying much is it ?

If you look at the number of US policemen murder each year, the vast majority is by gun, and actually vehicles are the next biggest killer, consistently ahead of knifes, which often kill no officers each year.