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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
Rubbish, all guns come from a legal source, if you reduce legal guns you always, over time, reduce illegal ones.
If you concurrently add massively strict sentences to illegal possession and use you can all but eliminate them.
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Yes, no one will ever stamp out gun crime 100%. There will always be a way to get one if you want it bad enough. But if you reduce the availability and convenience, then I would bet there would be a big dent in gun violence.
Crime is at least partially affected by the opportunity to commit the crime. Reduce the opportunity, and you reduce the crime. It's like locking your car door. It will never 100% stop the possibility of theft from your vehicle, but most people still lock them to make it less convenient for a thief.