That's not a good reason for not banning them. You can't prevent people making pipe bombs at home. Does that mean they shouldn't be illegal? So why should it be any different for high capacity mags?
Wouldn't it prevent the number from increasing?
So...gun nuts get to steer the boat? Reminds me of a lunatic & asylum analogy.
Actually the results of the ban are not as clear, as you may have implied. See the internet re this topic. There is quite a bit of discussion, and at the end of the day one can not claim legitimately that the ban, especially if it had been augmented with control of magazine size on other semi-automatics, would not produce a shift in statistics in the desired direction. It isn't a clear cut issue at this point. My own observation is that the some of the studies (perhaps most) should be considered invalid for the purpose of evaluating the effect of an assault style weapons ban, because of insufficient granularity in the data. That is to say, shootings data was in many cases not broken down by number of victims per event, which is necessary to separate the effect of the ban from shootings in general. When one looks at the drop in the number of Assault Style guns used in gun crimes during the ban, it appears that the ban was actually quite effective in that regard. The idea is to reduce the probability of mass shootings. As mass shootings today are more frequent than they were in the 1990s, with appropriate granularity today's data could be expected to show a significant drop in mass shootings if assault style weapons were banned today along with control of magazine size in other semiautomatic weapons being introduced. When legislation is clearly defective in light of its intended aim, no one should be surprised that its effect is somewhat less than might have been hoped for. A example drawn from endless other examples that could be drawn of clearly defective legislation dealing with gun control would be legislation requiring background checks that does not cover gun transactions between private parties or at gun shows!
See, dest, Tsing wants to post asinine shit like this and get the respect of a considered response.
