92% of states don't have universal waiting periods (all except CA/FL/IL/RI)
88% of states don't have universal permits (CA/CT/HI/IL/MA/NJ)
94% of states don't have universal registration (CA/HI/WA)
why cap about things that are so easily looked up, idgi
Looks like your dishonest manipulation knows no bounds. My exact statement was:
nearly half of Americans live in a state that has waiting periods, gun permits required, or registration of some firearms required.
California, Florida, New York, Illinois, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Hawaii, District of Columbia, Minnesota, Nebraska, Washington, New Jersey, Connecticut, Maryland, and Massachusetts all require a waiting period, registration, or gun permit for some guns. That's 44% of the US population.
You claimed that NO permits whatsoever, NO registration whatsoever, and NO waiting periods whatsoever were the status quo in 90% of the country, then when I challenged that you changed it from "no" to "not universal", split the three up in separate categories, and tried to count by states instead of by people because the country is full of right-wing rural states that distort any state count.
And that's all tangental to how fringe your views are, because you full well know that gun lobbies drive those laws, not public opinion. You COMPLETELY ignored public opinion in order to follow the bullshyt deflection about state law. As I already said:
Only about 5% of Americans oppose background checks on guns, only 18% oppose a national database of gun sales, only 9% oppose preventing sales to people reported as dangerous, only 24% oppose a 30-day waiting period for all gun sales, and only 29% oppose requiring all guns to be registered with police. And most of those are the extreme statements on those laws, if you used lighter wording (5-day waiting period, only certain guns registered, etc.) your positions would be even more marginalized.
And "all felons should be allowed to own guns" would be even more marginal than all the rest.
You said yourself that you would support all of those things regardless of how bad the consequences are. You are at the extreme right-wing end of gun nuttery and you know it.
The rest of your statement was full of lies and deflections too, which appears to be just how you operate. And the audacity to claim that I'm the one without moral stances. Your entire platform is guns and lies.
