Reply #23: It doesn't take a month to train a person on how to use a handgun.

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15-30 days IS unreasonable unless you can provide adequate evidence that doing so would have a very significant impact on the violent crime rate (I'll save you some time here, though - it won't). Restricting constitutional rights willy nilly just for the sake of doing so because it seems to "make sense" on the surface is a beyond pointless exercise. You simply wouldn't have the support of the general populace, for one thing, as the majority of them simply don't believe further restrictions is the answer to our crime problem. And that's for good reason. Violent crime has many causes. The availability of firearms is not one of them. You put a long waiting period on guns and it won't do anything because criminals will continue to purchase guns from the black market. If you ban them outright, they'll do the same thing, but it'll be even more lucrative and the drug lords will have a new item they can trade in. And even better for them, the general population will be virtually defenseless in front of them.

Here's what it comes down to; you either don't like guns or you simply are ignorant of the real issues at hand, or some mixture of the two. The reason why progressives who don't support the nonsense you're promoting is because you're making it that much more difficult for us to fight the real causes of crime (poverty, education, etc.) due to the loss of political credibility our movement experiences every time one of you get's an epiphany. I swear, a better tactic to torpedo the progressive movement could not be found even if you tried, and that's what you're a part of.