06-11-2013, 08:00 AM
The waiting periods are bullshit to start with. They were based on the premise that some guy back in the 70's went and legally bought a gun then immediately killed someone with it. The waiting period was a "Cooling Off" period. The crimes it was designed to prevent were something under 1% of the total gun crimes. The anti gun nuts get all foaming at the mouth about them, ridiculous waste of time and effort.
This guy was killed because some irresponsible adult didn't secure his weapons and had a surprise visitor. Waiting periods will not stop that sort of thing. Its sad, but I don't see any reason at all for ME or anyone I know to have to deal with any more laws to deal with it. People here in this country are accidentally killed with guns at about the same rate as accidentally run over by their own family and yet, no one is proposing a waiting period to buy a car.
If you want t make a difference, enforce the laws we have already, hunt down the assholes on the street and check them for weapons, stop letting them out of prison.
This guy was killed because some irresponsible adult didn't secure his weapons and had a surprise visitor. Waiting periods will not stop that sort of thing. Its sad, but I don't see any reason at all for ME or anyone I know to have to deal with any more laws to deal with it. People here in this country are accidentally killed with guns at about the same rate as accidentally run over by their own family and yet, no one is proposing a waiting period to buy a car.
If you want t make a difference, enforce the laws we have already, hunt down the assholes on the street and check them for weapons, stop letting them out of prison.