High capacity magazines make no sense

John McCain says that banning high capacity ammunition magazines won't help. Maybe he is right, but it seems worthwhile to remove easy and very fast access to so many bullets from the hands of someone intent on killing as many people as possible in a given time.

It seems that we are pursuing the wrong issue. The sane have for many years attempted to classify the large clips for automatic (actually semi-automatic) weapons as unnecessary. The gun-toters have argued to keep them available. During these debates, I have never heard a case made for why the large clips are needed. Can you help me out here? If not for killing the maximum number of people in the shortest amount of time, then why are they necessary to have available for anyone other than the military or para-military police forces? Why?

Of course the far right wacko's will tell us that the assault weapons with full automatic capability, large magazines and free access to all the armor piercing ammunition desired must be available so that we can protect ourselves from our government. I don't know about you, but even with a fully automatic Bush-Master and tons of ammo, I don't think I would want to go against our government and our Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines (not to mention the Coast Guard, the National Guard, state and local police forces) and the fire-power that they, collectively, could assemble. I think I will stick to the ballot box and the power of the vote.

Guns for hunting, for the sports of target shooting, skeet shooting, etc. are fine by me. Hopefully, those out there pursuing the long tradition of hunting game animals are sufficiently good marksmen who, to stop Bambie, charging through the woods, will need less than a thirty-round clip of armor-piercing bullets to stop the wild beast running for its life. For the guy shooting skeet ...two barrels seem sufficient to knock down a clay pigeon; and the person target shooting surely can stop and reload after firing-off a more reasonable ten (or fewer) round clip.

Notwithstanding the Second Amendment rights, the argument for the NRA position of little or no regulation of firearms and their accessories has little merit in today's American society.