Since most firearms used are hand guns, and most are either semi-auto clip fed or a revolver, you can easily and quickly kill 6-9 people if you know what you are doing. (that based on a revolver having 6 rounds and most handguns have 9 round clips (yes that does vary). if you are there to do some serious damage and bring extra clips and you know how to use the firearm proficiently...that number goes up real quick. How long does it take you to offload a full clip? I know with a .45, it took me about a minute or so to accurately offload the rounds into the target. Imagine the damage that can be done in 5-10 minutes.
That is assuming a handguns was used. If you use a semi-automatic rifle, that magazine size goes up. I am not sure what the law allows, but i know they have 30 round clips for semi-automatic rifles...I heard something about a 60 round clip from a gun nut in a different discussion. I know with an AR-15, it is not hard to tun that to a fully automatic rifle. Even in full auto, it is fairly accurate and if you are spraying into a crowd...that's a lot of people you can kill. On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Along those same lines, I wonder how easy it is to accidentally kill > multiple people with a gun? Its pretty easy to kill multiple people by > accident with a car. > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Eric Roberts > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>> it's a lot harder to kill multiple people with a knife than it is to > fire > >>> off several rounds from a firearm. talk about red herrings...you just > >>> stated a years worth of that catch... > >> > >> And its even easier to run them over with a car, yet I don't hear you > >> clamoring to ban automobiles. In 2009, automobile related fatalities > >> accounted for 11.1 deaths per 100,000 people - > >> http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx . What do you propose we > >> do about that? Surely if the death rate from fire arms alarms you, the > >> death rate from automobiles should be equally alarming. > > > > I would suggest that it must not be easier to run someone over with a > > car than to shoot them as homicides involve hand guns much more > > frequently than they do cars. The high number of fatalities involving > > automobile use are owing to the wide usage of automobiles and the > > attendant risk of (usually accidental) death. Hand guns, to the > > contrary, do not have the same regular usage for tasks other than, > > well, shooting at people. Some people do take their hand guns out > > shooting recreationaly, of course. And accidents do happen. But the > > rate of people who aim their gun at another person versus the rate of > > people who aim their car at another person seems to be drastically > > different, so I don't feel like your analogy really follows logically. > > > > Cheers, > > Juda > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:347512 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
