At least that's what the Colorado anti-2A sponors appear to think
COLORADO Democrat Doesn't Understand High-Capacity Magazines Can Be Reloaded
Rep. Dianne DeGette (D-Colorado): "I will tell you these are ammunition,
they’re bullets, so the people who have those now they’re going to shoot them,
so if you ban them in the future, the number of these high capacity magazines is
going to decrease dramatically over time because the bullets will have been shot
and there won’t be any more available."
(April 2, 2013, Denver Post forum)
While the audience to these remarks appeared to be knowledgable enough to realize the utter nonsense
of this statement, I fear that a great many people (and not a few of the Lawmakers involved) have
no clue. This then is our greatest problem: Total ignorance in the face of "Do-It-for-the-Children" emotion.
Her spokeman tried to "correct" the "mistatement," but in my opinion just dug the ignorance hole deeper:
Quote:
“The Congresswoman has been working on a high-capacity assault
magazine ban for years, and has been deeply involved in the issue; she simply
misspoke in referring to ‘magazines’ when she should have referred to ‘clips,’
which cannot be reused because they don’t have a feeding mechanism,” Johnson
said. “Quite frankly, this is just another example of opponents of common-sense
gun violence prevention trying to manipulate the facts...
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