Red Flag Laws
What’s funny is, unlike the true gun nutters, my position on guns has evolved over the years.
If you look in the right places you could probably find me arguing FOR long arms -- including AR15s -- over handguns. This is because, traditionally, the smaller the gun the more deadly.
Small, concealable weapons were always the most likely to kill.
But times have changed. Now, our biggest concern is lunatic mass shooters and even (ideological) terrorism, not a bunch of gun “enthusiasts” running around plugging each other. So I’ve completely reversed my position.
The smaller the gun, the lower the capacity, the more useless it is in a mass shooting.
Look. A woman being attacked by a rapist has a 49% chance of stopping the attacker in his tracks WITH THE FIRST SHOT, armed with the wimpiest little .25 handgun. Her odds rise if she fires more shots and they rise further by switching “Up” to a .22 LR.
AND, considering that John Hinkley was able to drop three grown men to the sidewalk using a snub nosed .22 LR revolver, plus send another to a hospital bed for weeks on a ricochet, nobody really needs a big gun.
NOTE: Hinkley used explosive ammunition, true, but the only round that exploded was the one that entered the head of James Brady, so it likely would have dropped him regardless.
I’m not saying we need to limit people to a .25 or even a .22 LR but if these “Wimpy” guns can get the job done, imagine what you can do with a .22 magnum, a .32 or a maybe snub nosed .38?
In a revolver, of course. Double action. It’s safer, vastly more reliable and even a 5-shot revolver exceeds the need, if you’re arming yourself against any realistic threat a person might encounter instead of your neurosis...