Okay, first off:
Yes! Thank you! You know, call me pedantic but this grates on my nerves so much for some weird reason. Movies, TV shows and games get this wrong all the freaking time. That metal box thingy filled with rounds that's slapped into a firearm to load it? That's a magazine!!! [http://www.army-technology.com/contractor_images/sacil/4-Magazine-for-n30-shot-5.jpg] A clip [http://cdn1.cheaperthandirt.com/ctd_images/bgprod/AMM-249.jpg] is a metal strip used to bind ammunition in order to make loading magazines easier, so you don't have to insert one round at a time, which is a pain in the ass.[footnote]Okay, well there are some exceptions, like the M1 Garand, where the entire clip is completely inserted into an internal en bloc magazine, but you get the idea.[/footnote] Ugh, anyway...thaluikhain said:Personally, I'm more perplexed by the idea of banning rifles, but not handguns. And, the usual "clips are not magazines".
You pretty much hit the nail on the head. It seems like some people don't seem to grasp the concept of how personal freedoms work in the U.S., especially with things like firearm ownership. While someone else might not be able to fathom why I would possibly need an AR-15 rifle with a 30 rd., or hell even an 100 rd. magazine, that isn't nor should it be the business of others. As a person who has no record of violent crime, my reasons for why I feel I need such a weapon are my own and I don't have to justify that to anyone else or even the government to an extent. Laws restricting firearms have never reduced violence here. The states with the strictest firearm regulation still have the highest violent crime rates. These things may work in other nations but have been completely ineffectual here (there's a fairly logical reason for this), and the majority of Americans are rightfully unwilling accept false promises of safety in exchange for their personal liberties.Dastardly said:And you might not think there is any reason for the "gun nut" to own an arsenal, but thankfully that's not how America works -- we don't outlaw things because we don't see a reason for people to have them. If that "gun nut" isn't doing anything wrong with those weapons (that is, nearly all "gun nuts") then the law has no business telling him he "doesn't need it."