Rep. Thomas Massie Rips Apart ‘Who Needs 100 Rounds’ Argument

By Tom Knighton

With the Dayton shooter having used a 100-round magazine, such higher-capacity magazines are firmly in the spotlight once again.

Anti-gun activists, the kind of people who have probably never fired a gun and have never actually studied gunfights to any degree, have been railing all about how you don’t need 100 rounds for self-defense.

However, Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky sent out a tweet yesterday that kind of destroyed that argument.

Some have asked, “who needs 100 rounds?”

If 6 brave, trained, and alert police officers with professionally maintained weapons fired 58 rounds to subdue the Dayton shooter,

I’d say my wife deserves at least that many chances to protect herself and my kids when I’m not home.

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) August 7, 2019

Boom.

Of course, I’m not a huge fan of 100-round magazines myself. They’re heavy and my past experiences with them showed them to be unreliable at best. I understand they’re better these days, but I find myself unmotivated to find out for myself at the moment.

Still, I’m also a believer that it’s generally not my place to judge what someone else believes works best for their defense needs.

More importantly, though, is that the Second Amendment has no clause saying that …Read the Rest

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