State Delegate Cliff Hayes (D) is introducing legislation to implement a three-day waiting period to purchase guns in Virginia.
“We need to do something to begin to deal with these shootings,” said Hayes, who represents the Greenbrier area of Chesapeake where a Walmart store manager gunned down six employees inside the store. Investigators said the shooter purchased the gun used in the mass shooting the same day.
According to a 2017 study in the National Academy of Sciences, “waiting period laws that delay the purchase of firearms by a few days reduce gun homicides by 17 percent.” The same study also found “waiting periods also lead to a seven to eleven percent reduction in gun suicides per year.”
“Nobody likes gun violence,” said Steve Dowdy, the owner of Bob’s Gun Shop in Norfolk. “But [what] we deal with on a daily basis is people that have had [things happen] the night before. Their house has been broken into, [and] they’re truly in fear for their life. Or they’ve got a situation where they need a firearm, and for somebody to say, hey you’ve got to wait three days to protect yourself, there’s another side to that argument.”
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21 сен 2024
