If you own many firearms already, how is a 30 day wait preventing you from bearing them?
But yeah, the benefit does mostly arise for first time gun buyers. But that would require a master list of all gun owners. I'd prefer the wait per gun.
But yeah, the benefit does mostly arise for first time gun buyers. But that would require a master list of all gun owners. I'd prefer the wait per gun.
All of the gun grabbers I am aware of that are in favor of waiting periods try to make this infringement justified based on "crimes of passion" and other "heat-of-the-moment" nonsense - not "schoolchildren."
If you look at the people doing the shooting you get a much better correlation but no-one wants to go there.
2021 - Ethnic minorities represent over 50% of Birmingham’s population - [0]
2022 - Birmingham overtakes London as 'gun capital' of Britain with huge surge in gang violence - [1]
[0] https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/birmingham-overtakes-l...
[1] https://www.birminghamworld.uk/news/ethnic-minorities-repres...
Going from 0.05 to 0.06 is also a "big surge".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-r...
If you take a look at say a heat map of the US where homicide is[1], it tracks extremely closely to where the black population is (New Mexico an outlier despite having stronger gun laws than most the surrounding states besides Colorado).[2]
[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Ho...
[2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Af...
Casual gun ownership is the difference. In Europe you can get guns, but you do it for a purpose like hunting or sports, license and training is required.
I'm talking about saving people's lives here.