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Straw Man

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5. Background checks, yes.
Mon May 17, 2021, 01:56 AM
May 2021

Capacity limits, no. Why? Because mass shootings, while horrific, are extreme outliers in the overall firearm death toll -- less than 1% of all gun killing annually. There is little evidence that magazine limits would have any appreciable effect on the overall death toll. Why do we persist in handing the Republicans this delicious wedge issue on a silver platter year after year?

The whole calculus looks even more absurd when a "mass shooting" is defined as more than four people. How is a ten-round limit supposed to make any kind of a dent in those numbers? I'm picturing a day when new revolvers will have every other cylinder plugged, and the term "three-shooter" will enter the lexicon.

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