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.
“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.”
_____________
Gun homicides?
Doesn’t reduce homicides? Just perhaps maybe the method of homicide??