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Originally Posted by DEFY
The issue with making more stringent laws is it makes it a hassle for those who abide by them, it doesn't affect those who are already breaking them. You can buy a gun and wait the 30 days or you can buy a stolen weapon within an hour. Who do you think is going to commit a crime?
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I'm not disagreeing that if you only break up the set of potential gun owners into two groups - law abiding citizens and criminals. You can come to that conclusion.
I'd argue that you should break the law abiding citizens group into multiple sets - knowledgeable, competent, ignorant, incompetent. The goal of licensing would be to create more knowledgeable and competent gun owners and limit the amount of ignorant and incompetent gun owners.