Part of the new Florida gun bill is a three day waiting period for all gun sales.
When I lived in Illinois, they had a 24 hour waiting period on long guns and a 72 hour waiting period on handguns. A number of states have waiting periods, California and Hawaii have the longest at 10 and 14 days, respectively.
Anti gun groups have been pushing hard for waiting periods since Parkland.
Here is some food for thought.
The San Bernardino shooters started taking about committing an attack as far back as 2013. The guns were purchased in 2011 and 2012.
The Pulse Nightclub shooter started planning his attack almost two years before his act of terrorism.
The Ft. Hood shooter started communicating with radical Islamic leaders months before the attack. He bought his Five-seveN pistol in July and the shooting was in November.
The Las Vegas shooting was “meticulously planned” over an extended period of time.
The Virgina Tech shooter bought his Glock and Walther weeks before his shooting.
The FBI was warned that the Parkland shooter wanted to be a “profession school shooter” five months before the shooting took place.
The point is, in most, if not every mass shooting that has become a media circus and part of our collective conscience, the shooting was planned weeks, months, even years in advance.
None of these shooters “snapped” and bought a gun to go on a rampage.
Just how much effect will a three day waiting period have on a shooter that is planning an attack for the previous five months? None at all.
Of all the worthless policies to implement to try and prevent a mass shooting, a waiting period is the one that most creates a false sense of security.
Not just do these politicians not know anything about guns, they don’t know anything about the behaviors of mass shooters either.
In point of fact, the Parkland murderer waited out the 5-day waiting period that Broward County imposed on long gun sales.
John Hinckley and Mark David Chapman were used as props by Handgun Control Inc (Brady Campaign) and the Democrats to get the Waiting Period laws. Both had bought the guns months prior and alos would have passed the background checks.
The Charleston Church shooter weathered the NICS hold and waited longer still before committing murder.
Also at the time of the VT shooting, Virginia had a one-gun-a-month policy for handguns.
For all the good it does.
The whole “cooling off period” is a lie dreamt up by the antis when they were getting the waiting period taken away when the background check switched from US Mail to the NICS.
It was never about “cooling off” it is always about keeping a backwards system that gun owners hate.
There’s only one conclusion that is logically defensible: that the legislature wants more honest people to be killed by criminals, by preventing them from taking effective action against imminent threats.
I’ve been looking for a study showing that waiting periods are useful for anything. Haven’t found any. I like to throw it back in their face, “you’re being a science denier – there isn’t a single study that backs up what you want”.
Not to mention the women that the leftists want to protect with Gun Violence Protective Orders who get killed waiting for a gun purchase to be approved.
“A false sense of security” just like gun free zones. Nuff said.