Wednesday, one week after nine innocent people were massacred in a church in South Carolina by a white supremacist who was inspired by a hate group who donated money to Scott Walker, he signed a bill eliminating our state's decades-old 48-hour "cooling off period" to buy a gun and making it even easier to carry one.
Eighty-eight people a day die by gun in America. At least some of them were very probably killed by someone who got mad at them and didn't have to wait the 48-hour "cooling off period" to buy the gun that killed them.
There are dozens of good reasons to have a 48 hour "cooling off period," but absolutely no good reasons not to have one.
If the life of even one human saved by a cooling off period isn't worth more to a person buying a gun than a very reasonable safeguard, chances are the person wishing to buy the gun doesn't respect life enough to own a gun in the first place.
After all, it takes longer than 48 hours to buy a set of sheets on Ebay.
Eighty-eight people a day die by gun in America. At least some of them were very probably killed by someone who got mad at them and didn't have to wait the 48-hour "cooling off period" to buy the gun that killed them.
There are dozens of good reasons to have a 48 hour "cooling off period," but absolutely no good reasons not to have one.
If the life of even one human saved by a cooling off period isn't worth more to a person buying a gun than a very reasonable safeguard, chances are the person wishing to buy the gun doesn't respect life enough to own a gun in the first place.
After all, it takes longer than 48 hours to buy a set of sheets on Ebay.
