Gun Control Reform Activism

I disagree with the proposed ban, entirely because it lacks the specificity required to most effectively achieve the desired end result.

Banning "semi-automatic weapons with removable magazines" leaves far too many loopholes, like for example semi-automatic weapons with fixed high capacity magazines, rendering it ineffective at regulating the critical characteristics that actually matter, which are both how fast a weapon can be reloaded and the number of rounds it can fire before needing to be reloaded.

Addressing one without addressing the other is guaranteed to be insufficiently effective.

To that end, it remains my position that capacity is the first thing we need to regulate, and the most important.
And that we should regulate it completely irrespective of any other consideration or characteristic.

The language being considered here suffers from the exact same failure that both the original and the more recently proposed, but failed, assault weapons ban did, in that it relies on commonalities shared between "assault" weapons without adequate understanding of the relevance and practical implications of the commonalities in question, reliably leading to the identification of the WRONG commonalities, without addressing the correct ones.

When assessed with adequate understanding of firearms, two things are inarguably true:

A limited capacity weapon being semi-automatic poses very little more threat than if it were not semi-automatic.
A high capacity weapon poses dramatically more risk regardless of mode of operation.

Quite simply, reloading ANY weapon, regardless of method, takes considerably longer than cycling an action manually.
Ergo, capacity is the single most useful thing to regulate, regardless of mode of operation or means of reloading.

That's just the objective facts regarding how firearms actually work.

p.s. - This should not be taken as opposition to regulation of removable magazines or semi-automatic weapons, though I think both are unnecessary. Just that capacity should be addressed separately and exclusively, irrespective of whatever else may also be regulated.