So this jerk of a professor feels that if you can\u2019t successfully stop all of the assailants attacking you with a \u201clow capacity\u201d mag then you deserve to die for your lack of \u201cmarksmanship training\u201d<\/p>\n
How gun control proponents might win over some Second Amendment advocates<\/a><\/p>\n The writer is a is a professor of psychology at Elon University.<\/i><\/p>\n I\u2019m no expert on firearms engineering or policy, just a concerned citizen who has spent my lifetime around knowledgeable and responsible gun owners.<\/p>\n From this personal experience, one thing is clear to me: A considerable number of proponents of gun control seem to know very little about the firearms they seek to regulate and so often sound ignorant when discussing gun control.<\/p>\n It\u2019s time to stop obsessing over the nebulous term \u201cassault weapon\u201d and the cosmetic features that qualify a firearm as an \u201cassault weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n There is one functional feature of many \u201cassault weapons\u201d that, if regulated, could substantially reduce injuries and fatalities during mass-shootings \u2014 high-capacity magazines. A ban on such magazines would be a meaningful step to reduce the potential damage a firearm can cause in a mass shooting scenario.<\/p>\n There is no legitimate sporting or self-defense need for someone with proper marksmanship training to possess a 10-plus round magazine.<\/strong><\/p>\n Creating a regulatory environment where the possession, sale and manufacture of such magazines could be phased out over time would be a substantial advancement from a harm-reduction standpoint. It could include a multi-year plan where low-capacity magazines would be made widely available to law-abiding gun owners before anything was banned outright.<\/p>\n Common-sense gun regulations (such as extensive owner training, licensing, and perhaps the registration of all firearms) that treat guns and shooting the same way we treat motor vehicles and driving are worthy of significant discussion. But this dialogue becomes challenged when the proponents of such regulation are fixated on the form of particular firearms, rather than their function.<\/p>\n Mat Gendle, Elon<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So this jerk of a professor feels that if you can\u2019t successfully stop all of the assailants attacking you with a \u201clow capacity\u201d mag then you deserve to die for your lack of \u201cmarksmanship training\u201d How gun control proponents might win over some Second Amendment advocates The writer is a is a professor of psychology … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap-for-brains","category-rkba","category-safety","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79391,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79390\/revisions\/79391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}