Legitimate gun owners are virtually never involved in gun-related crimes, while criminals virtually never obtain their guns through legitimate channels. Gun control laws directed at legitimate gun owners are not going to reduce crime. It would seem gun control is actually inversely related to crime reduction. The ultimate goal of a politician is to be re-elected.
Gun control is such an illusion.
I do not recall these same politicians boasting that they were able to reduce crime. Waiting periods don't work. Waiting periods have been experimented with for decades, and now about two-thirds of the U.S. population lives under some form of waiting period law. Crime has not subsided. People who have reason to fear for their lives are unable to immediately protect themselves.