[Serious] Gun control opponents of Reddit; if gun restrictions aren't the right way to control gun deaths, then what is?

I don't believe these figures you're using and submit that you've just made them up.

Let's say it takes 3 seconds for the average person to change a magazine, and a semi-auto rife can fire 3 rounds per second (you may make your own bids for these figures I'm just using something ballparky). Let's take a shooter with 2 30-round magazine and a shooter with 2 8-round magazines.

First shooter:

  • 10 seconds to empty the magazine
  • 3 seconds to change magazines
  • 10 seconds to empty the second magazine
  • total time: 23 seconds to fire 60 rounds, or an average of 2.6 rounds per second

Second shooter:

  • 2.7 seconds to empty the first magazine
  • 3 seconds to change magazines
  • 2.7 seconds to empty the magazine
  • Total time: 8.4 seconds to fire 16 rounds, or an average of 1.9 rounds per second.

over a 10 minute interval the first shooter could fire 1560 rounds while the second shooter could fire 1140, or 27% fewer.

Limit magazine size to 6 rounds and the count will be even lower. You cannot possibly try to pretend that that amount is not significant.

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