A longtime Special Forces officer who served in Afghanistan before he was wounded offers his opinion on the NRA’s position, i.e: “If everyone had a gun, people would be able to kill a shooter before he caused too much mayhem.”

“This, simply put, is bullshit. There are people who train night and day to be good at shooting bad guys in situations where there are innocents in close proximity and even those people screw up because a gunfight is not a shooting range. People are dying and screaming and there is blood and all that silly shit you ‘think’ you’re going to do goes right out the window when you are in that crazy environment.”

The same veteran on the high-capacity magazines that the NRA has fought so hard to keep on the market. “There is no reason for a noncombatant citizen of our country to have a weapon that can shoot 30 rounds of ammunition. I have been in many gunfights in ‘bona fide’ war-zones and only a few times did I have to use that many bullets. If you are a hunter or a sports shooter, you don’t need a 30-round magazine to do either of those things.”