MSNBC's Larry O'Donnell just drives me up a tree. Somehow MSNBC managed to find someone worse than Keith Olbermann to fill his time slot. This admitted socialist's sanctimonious rage, his condescending voice, his holier-than-thou forehead stuck in his expressionless face combine to be about as pleasant as kittens in a blender on high speed.
I found this video on YouTube. It's from earlier this year just after the shooting in Arizona by Jared Loughner where he killed or injured 20 people. Watch this:
O'Donnell keeps harping on the fact that prior to 2003 gun magazines (not clips) were limited to 10 rounds (not bullets) each. At 1:34 he says, "[People] would have been better off if Jared Loughner, by law, could only fire ten bullets."
Pardon me, Larry, but I don't think Jared Loughner was much concerned with obeying the law. When the 10-round magazine limit was in force, yes, it was against the law to (I believe) sell, distribute, or import a magazine with greater than 10 rounds (but not to own, as I own several and did during that period). But could Loughner have bought one on the black market? Of course he could. He was planning on murdering people. I strongly doubt a so-called high-capacity magazine ban would have stopped his plans.
At 2:06 O'Donnell says, "I blame the individual for the first ten bullets; I blame the law for the next 21 bullets that he fired." (Let's ignore the error O'Donnell is making about the number of rounds in each magazine. If Loughner had a 10-round magazine he probably would have fired 11 rounds before reloading since apparently he carried one round in the gun's chamber.) Loughner pulled the trigger 31 times. Whether he did it with one magazine or three is irrelevant (could he have been stopped trying to reload after 10, who knows). But even if the high-capacity magazine ban were still in effect, he could have obtained one.
Criminals get and use weapons they are not, BY LAW, allowed to have. Gun control is based on the laughable proposition that criminals will obey one law (gun control laws) while scoffing at all other laws.
What would have stopped Loughner quicker was an armed citizen with his own high-capacity magazine unloading a few rounds into Loughner. Guns are tools that a small minority of people abuse. It's not the tool, it's the user. You might as well ban high capacity hard drives to stop child pornography.





