On the moral panic scale, the controversy over gun magazines is most like those over:

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[tridim]

1. On the "I want my mass killing machines, so screw the dead" scale..

It represents a basic lack of human compassion, and a scary addiction to hunks of metal.

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2. Mass murderers get better results with explosives and airliners

And there are several cases on record of people running amuck with bladed weapons that killed more people than Loughner did

But then again, those promulgating moral panics tend to be factose intolerant, like to claim the moral high ground, and tend to

get hostile towards those critically examining their pronouncements.


Glad to know you don't do anything like that...

[Pancho Sanza]

7. What's it like going through life scared of everything?

I just can't help but wonder...

[X_Digger]

3. 100% fact free..

[old mark]

4. People reacting emotionally to something they know nothing about...

could be any of the above choices.


mark

[PavePusher]

5. Awww, man, to many good choices... n/t

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6. Thanks, and from what I've seen so far- all of them equally valid.

At the moment, this place is almost as nutty as Free Republic was the day after President Obama won the election.


As Hunter S. Thompson described it: A lot of bad craziness.

[petronius]

8. .50 caliber? Those are the guns that shoot down jetliners, right?

You can tell me I'm wrong but I won't believe you - I heard it somewhere... ;)

(That's my vote, by the way.)

[Euromutt]

9. I was tempted to go for Satanic abuse, but I had to opt for Reefer Madness

Mainly on the basis that the Ritual Satanic Abuse turned out to be a complete fabrication from start to finish, whereas marijuana and magazines with a capacity over ten rounds do actually exist, even if they're nowhere near as harmful as some insist on making them out to be.