Hundreds Shot Dead Every Year Because States Don’t Have Waiting Periods
Most send you home right away with a brand-new gun, and people are getting murdered because of it, a new study shows.
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Waiting periods save lives. A legally mandated delay imposed by some states, which makes would-be gun owners pause before actually getting a firearm, lowers rates of murder and suicide.
While this nexus may seem as logical as night following day, a new study released this week proves it. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Harvard Business School researchers Michael Luca, Deepak Malhotra and Christopher Poliquin found that waiting period laws reduce homicides in which a gun is used by 17 percent.