In 2013, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., summed it up best when discussing those pushing for more gun control: “Criminals don’t care about the laws that we pass with regards to guns. They never follow the law. That’s why they’re criminals.”

Rubio could not have been more correct. Criminals intent on seriously harming or killing someone with a firearm are not going to go through the proper legal channels to buy a firearm. They’re going to buy an illegal gun in an alley or steal one.

That’s what those pushing for stricter gun laws don’t seem to understand, which is highly unfortunate, because the laws they are pushing for don’t affect the criminals. Instead, they affect law-abiding citizens who go through the legal process of background checks to buy the gun or guns of their choice.

Those pushing for stricter gun laws really need to look at the city of Chicago, which has one of the highest homicide rates in the country, most of which is black-on-black homicides. The vast majority of those involved in these homicides didn’t buy their guns legally, nor will they in the future. As Rubio said, they don’t care about the laws.

Some time back, Illinois Gov. Jay Robert Pritzker signed a law that requires people to wait 72 hours on all firearm purchases – not just handguns – before receiving their gun after a background check is done. This is just one more example of a state that doesn’t want to recognize that the real problem is not law-abiding citizens killing each other, rather it’s criminals killing one another in large numbers.

Is it really fair for hundreds of thousands of law-abiding citizens in Illinois to have to wait three days for a gun that they should be able to walk out with after a background check is completed? We think not.

In Kentucky and many other states, there is no waiting period upon buying a firearm. The laws in our state and others seem to be working quite well, as law-abiding citizens can buy a gun and walk out with it merely 25 to 30 minutes later, after a background check is conducted.

This new law in Illinois will do absolutely nothing to lower the high homicide rate in that state, especially in Chicago. All it will do is penalize law-abiding citizens who shouldn’t have to wait three days to pick up their guns. This is especially applicable to a multitude of African Americans in Chicago who may wish to purchase a firearm for protection from the criminal element creating so much violence in their city.

This is complete government overreach by that state, an attempt to infringe on the Second Amendment and penalize law-abiding citizens who simply want to buy a gun and not wait three days to do so.