More proof magazine capacity limitations do nothing to prevent mass shootings

**feedramp** · 01-06-13, 20:37

http://www.courant.com/news/connecti...,2370630.story
(Article contains new details from Newtown shooting)

Lanza changed magazines frequently [...] sometimes shooting as few as 15 shots from a 30-round magazine, sources said.

Let's get this new fact some visibility and mention it in any future communications made with our congressmen, please.

**FromMyColdDeadHand** · 01-06-13, 21:50

So much stuff in that article that will never get the attention it deserves.

The ear plugs were so that he didn't get his bell rung from multiple shots from a rifle in confined quarters- it just shows how much he thought ahead.

Erasing his computers so that no one could track what he as doing.

Good comment about all the video games. They closed gunshows all over NE this weekend out of respect for the victims, did they stop selling video games too?

**ccosby** · 01-06-13, 22:05

Originally Posted by FromMyColdDeadHand

So much stuff in that article that will never get the attention it deserves.

The ear plugs were so that he didn't get his bell rung from multiple shots from a rifle in confined quarters- it just shows how much he thought ahead.

Erasing his computers so that no one could track what he as doing.

Good comment about all the video games. They closed gunshows all over NE this weekend out of respect for the victims, did they stop selling video games too?

Yea the ear plugs just shows he had an idea of what he was doing. Same with the reloading in a sense.

As far as erasing the computer it was prob part of an idea that he might escape or something. Still shows planning though.

**jaydoc1** · 01-06-13, 22:22

That's sort of a strange thing to think of but I'll be he did do mag changes a lot based on his gaming. It gets programmed into you that the second you stop shooting for half a second you reload. Becomes second nature. Weird to think it might have transferred over to real life in his sick twisted brain.

**feedramp** · 01-06-13, 22:27

Maybe what we ought to do is start banging on the Twitter accounts of congressmen known to support magazine restrictions. @reply them asking why they support mag restrictions when it clearly wouldn't have helped at Newtown, CT, and add a shortlink to that article as evidence of it.

They pay more attention to social media these days since it's public and they can't just ignore a mass audience the way they can ignore individual postal-mail letters.

**feedramp** · 01-06-13, 22:52

And here's another important factor that's under-reported:
http://www.wnd.com/2013/01/the-giant...ook-reporting/

it is simply indisputable that most perpetrators of school shootings and similar mass murders in our modern era were either on – or just recently coming off of – psychiatric medications

**SteyrAUG** · 01-06-13, 22:57

""It's just weird [that he popped in earplugs] given what he was about to go do," a source said. "It's not like he had to worry about long-term protection of his hearing because he had to know he wasn't coming back out of the building.""

He knew he intended to fire a weapon indoors and had some idea what that would be like. Just because he likely knew he would take his own life, doesn't mean he would deliberately subject himself to discomfort prior to that. Same reason some people eat a nice meal before checking out.

"Lanza might have carried habits either from the shooting range or the virtual world of video games into his real-world massacre."

I also immediately thought of gaming. I don't blame gaming for his actions but I strongly suspect he was entertaining himself in the real life role of a first person shooter. I doubt those kids meant any more to him than virtual victims. I seriously doubt the earplugs were meant to shield him from their cries, I think he would have actually enjoyed them.

**SteyrAUG** · 01-06-13, 23:00

Originally Posted by jay35

And here's another important factor that's under-reported:
http://www.wnd.com/2013/01/the-giant...ook-reporting/

I think that is going to be a key issue. But considering how many parents have medicated kids it's going to be a non starter.

Perhaps parents need to ask if other children are "on medication" the way some inquire if there are "any guns in the house" before they let their children socialize with another kid. Maybe if this became a common inquiry to school teachers and principals we might get some of these kids off the drugs they are given so they are more complacent.

**SMETNA** · 01-07-13, 02:52

Originally Posted by jay35

http://www.courant.com/news/connecti...,2370630.story
(Article contains new details from Newtown shooting)

Let's get this new fact some visibility and mention it in any future communications made with our congressmen, please.

I thought it was determined that he only used the handguns.

The whole narrative is jacked