priori reason to have low expectations for Brady Law results.  Today the
District of Columbia and most high-crime cities are exempt from the Brady Law
waiting period. Ten such Brady Law-exempt/high-crime cities (New York City,
Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit, District of Columbia, Baltimore, St. Louis,
Phoenix, Atlanta, Richmond) accounted for 23% of 1994 US homicides.31
"If it saves one life," but costs many  lives, what then?
The Brady Law is a failure and predictably so.  Contrary to the pandemic of
propaganda by the advocates of the Brady Law, dismantling the Brady Law will
not result in an epidemic of violence or a public policy disaster.  In
formulating sound public policy, one cannot succumb to the seductive "if it
saves only one life" lament as though it suggested some compelling government
need, because the dozens of thousands of Brady Law background check errors
and the waiting period have certainly denied timely access to the safest and
most effective means of protection32 - a gun - to at least many innocent
victims.
[cont'd]
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