Ah forget it, it isn't about Vegas, this is about never letting a crisis go to waste.
Ah forget it, it isn't about Vegas, this is about never letting a crisis go to waste.
Sure they do, the lives of criminals. How many law-abiding citizens looking for protection lost theirs though?
No way they can back that theory up. Pure liberal BS.
Make sure to have all other Bill of Rights permits and licenses in order.
In my misspent youth, I worked for a scientist who primarily did studies for clients. His first question was, “what are you trying to prove?” It was then my job to arrange data that proved what the client wanted to prove. Sometimes the data did prove it. Sometimes the data said the opposite, but you couldn’t tell that from the write-up. The scientist got lots of grants. As a result, he had the biggest lab and office of his competitors at the university. He who brings in the most cash wins. “Science” takes a back seat to cash.
Look at all the lives the 3 day waiting period in Illinois has saved in Chicago.
“We can say confidently that waiting period laws reduce gun homicides”
There are no contemporaneous control and experimental groups. Dodgy ‘science.’
But instead of spending scarce tax money on waiting periods for handgun acquisitions, why not spend it on women’s shelters or better youth crisis/domestic intervention initiatives? The question should be how many more lives could be saved by dealing with domestic violence regardless of the weapon used?
with Chicago as the subject, last week’s murder rate of 9 would have been 12 with out the waiting period.
Conflating self-defense with “gun deaths” again.
When “researchers” analyse an odd number, like 43 of 50, it is always suspect. Why did they leave out seven states?
I recall John Lott looked at waiting periods and found that they *increased* homicides.
Not much, but some.
Wow, a "couple" of days. Real scientific measurement there. Notice the weasel word "could" too - no guarantee because no-one really expects this to work. They just want an excuse to advance their incrementalism a bit, chip away at our freedoms a little more. So in a year or two "well, that didn't work, how about we take this small step - for safety, for the children..."
Researchers at Harvard Business School analyzed waiting period laws for handguns in 43 states and the District of Columbia from 1970 to 2014. Their results showed that waiting periods were associated with a 17% decrease in gun homicides and a 7% to 11% decrease in gun suicides per year.
Nearly impossible to defend since they have no control group without waiting periods. We know firearm homicides and suicides vary by location, season, economic outlook - a whole host of factors. So it is a practical impossibility to identify one factor as a sole contributor or assign a weight to it.
“We can say confidently that waiting period laws reduce gun homicides,” said Deepak Malhotra, professor of negotiation and conflict resolution at Harvard Business School and a researcher on the study. “There seems to be a lot of evidence to suggest that suicides also are reduced, but further research might be necessary on that issue.”
Really? If you're so confident then why the weasel words? Why the call for more research? Guess you're not that confident. In fact I would guess that he is guessing, making {excrement} up, playing along with an agenda.
I can walk in, buy an weapon and leave with it. Just like that! Show my conceal carry permit, they do the check and voila, I’m outta there, weapon in hand!
Waiting laws save the lives of the bad guys but the good guys/women die.
Yeah; I’ll pass on this diaper load thank you.
These studies are right up there with global warming. The left has proven it will manipulate science to support its agenda. In fact, they demand it.
“Study” means “propaganda”. The conclusions of studies are written before they are carried out.
Fake news.
First, this is bunk.
Second, I would be interested to be informed as to how a handgun waiting period could possibly affect crime when the purchaser already has access to one or more of his or her own firearms. With over 100 million gun owners, I would have to believe that the vast majority of those purchasing a new handgun are existing owners. Michigan points to the utter absurdity of such restrictions.
Third, if you were going to have restrictions upon exercising one Constitutional right, then I would suggest that there needs to also be a waiting period for the right to buy a newspaper or magazine, or to Surf particular sites on the Internet, or to attend a house of worship, or to write a letter to your Congressman protesting his latest set of lies, etc. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.
Ministry of Propaganda