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Diana, as a registered Democrat (little white lie) in your district I have to implore you to abandon your quest against "assault clips", a nomenclature that immediately suggests you clearly do not know much about my Second Amendment rights or about guns in general. First of all, "clips" have not been used since the M1 Garand in WWII, and for the most part you are acting against what are considered by manufacturers and our own military as "standard capacity magazines". The words "assault" and "clip" are terms used in error to evoke a response, and personally I find that sort of tactic underhanded and childish. Assault weapons were banned in 1986. The term "assault weapon" refers to a gun that is fully automatic. As a legal gun owner and law abiding citizen, I am unable to own an assault weapon. Do you honestly think that by limiting magazine capacity to ten rounds you will somehow prevent either the hundreds of millions of STANDARD CAPACITY magazines in circulation from falling into the wrong hands? Even if by some miracle criminals actually decide to selectively obey your law, what is stopping them from reloading and carrying additional magazines?
Have you ever even held a gun or reloaded one? In practiced hands it takes a second or less. That's what you'd be doing, adding seconds to crimes that take 20 minutes on average for the police to respond to. You won't save any lives, you won't discourage anything. The Columbine massacre took place in a gun free zone during a ban. Dylan Kliebold himself railed against laws allowing citizens to carry concealed, because he wanted everyone not carrying a badge to be a victim.
I am not going to get into a discussion of the second amendment because clearly your very liberal interpretation is too far off for any logic to sway, but I will leave you with this. The Second Amendment was written to protect the PEOPLE from their GOVERNMENT, not the other way around. Any attempt to stomp on that right has historically landed a politician without a job, and in your case I'm sure you will find out soon enough if you continue this misguided and emotionally driven quest.
