wow - WashPo editorial seriously mangles some basic terminology..

[trashman]

Saturday's rampage does illustrate the need for tighter control of semiautomatic weapons and ammunition. The gunman arrived at the supermarket with a Glock semiautomatic equipped with an extended magazine of about 30 bullets and additional ammunition. The long-lapsed federal ban on assault weapons, which prohibited such high-capacity magazines, should be reinstated: There is no justification, outside of law enforcement or military use, for such ammunition. A magazine with a smaller capacity might not have stopped the gunman, but it might have at least reduced the carnage.

I had to read it about 5 times to make sure I wasn't seeing things. The Post really has laid a gem of an example for why anti-gun legislation is ultimately doomed -- facts and details matter and when you can't even make the distinction between ammunition and ammunition capacity you really are just arm-waving.

For all the world it reads like the Post got a 20-year old intern to write this.

--Neill

Link to the full editorial.

[SixPointEight]

My brother, a freshman in high-school writes better than that.

[bernieb90]

The guy does not seem so sure about what he is writing. Banning stuff might do something, but might not, so we will ban things, and hope it does something.