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Don't disagree that it would be murder. Not arguing it's an act of passion. But that we do tend to calm down when we have time to think.
Nice catch phrase, but in this case not really accurate.
What will you use one on? Duck? Quail? Deer? Bear?
And tank is more then armored btw. It has weapons.
Having a bit of experience with the criminal justice system I can tell you heat of passion does not normally survive a trip to the gun store. If you are mad enough to go out, buy a gun fill out the paperwork etc to cap someone you are now in the premeditated area of homicide and a cooling off period is not gonna stop that. A major CDC study of the brady bill's waiting period concluded that the only crimes that may have been lowered by a waiting period was SUICIDES among ONE age cohort
There is dozens of cases of people dying because they had to wait to get a gun. The most famous IIRC was a lady in the military-in VA I believe who got a restraining order against an ex and then tried to buy a gun when he violated the RO. He whacked her between the time she purchased the weapon and when she would have been allowed to take delivery.
You wanna wait 5 days if there is another Rodney King type riot?
ONe last point dealing with something you said earlier--if machine guns have no legitimate purpose in a civilian environment why does every major CIVILIAN law enforcement agency-from the IRS-CID to the Fish and Natural Resources (Smokey the Bear types) have them?