Are there any actual statistics that show that this new regulation will decrease illegal gun sales? AFAIK law-abiding citizens already follow the law. All this will do is once again increase the burden placed on people trying to practice one of their constitutional rights. Unless you can provide statistics that indicate this will actually work?
Congress banned spending federal funding on that kind of research at the behest of the NRA decades ago. What do do know is that about 1/5 of guns sales happen without a background check, and that felons all know that this is an easy way to avoid having one.
False. Congress banned the CDC from doing this kind of research. The FBI does perform crime statistics analysis as part of it’s Congressional mandate, available at https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov. I am well aware of the stats myself, and there is no correlation between violent crime rates and increased firearms regulations. If you are going to violate people’s constitutional rights, you damn sure better have stats to back it up. At the very least.
Are there any actual statistics that show that this new regulation will decrease illegal gun sales? AFAIK law-abiding citizens already follow the law. All this will do is once again increase the burden placed on people trying to practice one of their constitutional rights. Unless you can provide statistics that indicate this will actually work?
Congress banned spending federal funding on that kind of research at the behest of the NRA decades ago. What do do know is that about 1/5 of guns sales happen without a background check, and that felons all know that this is an easy way to avoid having one.
False. Congress banned the CDC from doing this kind of research. The FBI does perform crime statistics analysis as part of it’s Congressional mandate, available at https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov. I am well aware of the stats myself, and there is no correlation between violent crime rates and increased firearms regulations. If you are going to violate people’s constitutional rights, you damn sure better have stats to back it up. At the very least.
There is a very tight relationship between firearms ownership and probability of suicide and killing spouse/family members.