Should Semi-Automatic weapons and/or clips with 10 or more rounds be outlawed?

While the Virginia Tech atrocity was the work of a seriously disturbed person, also significant were the weapons used by Cho Seung-Hui: semi-automatic pistols capable of rapid fire. Mass killers plan their rampages, and most choose semi-automatic handguns holding 10 or more rounds per clip.

Such weapons were not widely available in the US before the mid-1980s, since then the incidence of mass shootings has increased. It stands to reason that many less students would have died if Cho could only get access to smaller clips.
Answer:
That is terribly wrong and here's why...

High capacity magazines have ALWAYS been available through mail order from foreign countries and on the black market in this country. They are easy to make so many people made their own.

The Assault Weapons Ban of 1994 did make these high capacity magazines illegal, however there were and will always be enough on the market to sustain criminals for many many years.

Banning such items only prevents me and any other honest person from owning them, even though if I really wanted to , I could illegally get it from at least 10 sources.

As far as the semi-automatic weapons go, the same rules apply. Why should I be restricted to only be allowed to carry a revolver with a five or six round capacity when criminals will always have rapid-fire semi-autos.

Is Marijuana and cocain not illegal? In ten minutes, if i chose to, I could probably have a pound and a half of the stuff. All it takes is money and connections. Criminals will always have those.

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that won't stop anything at all. the gun user will simply carry more clips or more weapons in general.

I am against making any firearm illegal. I feel that every citizen has the constitutional right to own any firearm they can afford. With that, they also should immediately feel the consequenses of any harmful action. That means that if you use a gun in the commision of a crime, expect to die very quickly.

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I would agree to the outlaw.

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No. Quite simply it has nothing to do with nuts going berserk. I can unload a pump gun practically as fast as a semi auto, and a revolver can be emptied pretty quick. When you can demonstrate ANY where in this country gun restrictive laws have done anything to stop criminals, I might listen, but not very long.

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how would this change anything? Guys.. it is not the guns... it is the screwed up person using the guns... you can outlaw all you want and guess what? If he wants it, he will still get it. Why does everyone think just because you make something law it will suddenly all go away? Cocaine is illegal... even larger bags of it, yet.....

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Please stop and check history the first federal gun control act was 1932 and this was a requirement that a machine gun ( These shoot lots of bullets ) have a federal tax stamp. Large magazines or clips as you call them have been available since 1890. Dynamite and morphin was also not restricted.

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yes they should be banned.
from '94-'04 we had a ban on assult weapons.
they have no other use but to kill and to kill massive amounts of people- you do not hunt with them and you do not defend your home or person with them