Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Where do you stand? [View all]Savannahmann
(3,891 posts)Rogers Rangers carried the excessive amount of 40 rounds for the time. That was enough ammo for four engagements, or more. Four battles fired with 40 rounds of ammunition. They needed to carry it, because there was no resupply between the time they left, and the time the returned. You scoff at the misunderstood statement of hundreds of rounds, and then declare that the excessive ammunition of the Rogers Rangers is not enough for you. You need an additional twelve rounds of ammunition, as a LEO.
I said that people can carry hundreds of rounds. The Batman shooter carried a hundred round drum, which thankfully for the victims, malfunctioned. He also had a shotgun, and a Glock, and I have no idea how much total ammunition he carried. The facts as I laid them out stand. The first thing done to clean up a town, ban the guns in the old west. Be it Wyatt, Virgil, or the Great Pumpkin, they banned the guns.
So banning the guns must be considered as a rational, historical, and constitutional means of curbing violence. Perhaps if we did, you would feel safe carrying three magazines instead of four. Considering that in the early 1980's, before the switch to the Wondernines started, most cops carried eighteen rounds of ammunition, or less.