Why I Need a 30 Round Magazine
Sometimes I think the Wife likes to pretend she’s Kato and I’m Inspector Closeau, ambushing me when I least expect it, but instead of unleashing a barrage of karate chops and kicks, she assaults me with her liberal “logic.” “Why on earth do you need a 30 round magazine?” I fumbled with my answer and failed to convince her, or more accurately, failed to provide a solid counterargument.
This article at American Thinker provides such a counterargument and explains why I need a 30 round magazine.
Police instructor Masaad Ayoob’s The Truth About Self Protection adds an incident in which a female police officer saw a crazed gunman murder a woman, who then shot her as well before she could do anything. “She lay helpless as she watched a neighbor empty a .22 rifle into the killer; the neighbor then had to club the madman down with the empty rifle, again and again, before he succumbed.”
My brush with Pure Evil that sent me scurrying to buy the 30 round magazines in the first place came in a scenario with 4 armed attackers. A 10 round magazine would have allowed me 3 rounds for half the group, 2 rounds for the other half. On a cold, foggy night scared out of my wits I am simply not that good at math. A 30 round magazine, on the other hand, would have provided me with 8 rounds for three attackers and 6 rounds for the remaining one, giving me much better odds. That night I wanted a curtain of lead to separate those I was protecting from the bad guys, and such a curtain only comes from large capacity magazines.
UPDATE: And here’s why I need an assault rifle.
Now it’s undeniable, Senator Dianne Feinstein to the contrary notwithstanding, that semi-automatic weapons such as the AR-15 are extremely well-adapted for home defense—especially against a crime that is becoming more and more popular among criminals, the home invasion. Over the past two decades, gun ownership has increased dramatically at the same time that crime rates have decreased. Combine this with the fact that most gun crimes are committed with stolen or illegally obtained weapons, and the formula to decrease crime is clear: Increase the number of responsible gun owners and prosecute to the greatest extent possible under the law those who commit gun-related crimes or possess weapons illegally.
Chad:
Why did Rosa Parks “need” to sit at the front of the bus?
Besides, a 30rounder is the standard.
5 April 2013, 8:05 pm