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Last time I check, narcatics where pretty illegal. You can pick those up in any major city. Even the smaller ones. If you know a drug dealer, the chances are he will know how to get a gun.
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So what's the argument about keeping narcotics illegal then? The one I always here is that if they made them legal, there would be even more of them on the street. If that is a legitimate argument, then surely the same principle applies to guns.
I would like to see some hard data about countries where guns are legal, and countries where they are illegal and compare it. I also heard before that most guns that are illegally purchased were at one time purchased legally by someone else and stolen. If true, that would mean that legal gun sales are partly responsible for crimes committed by black market guns. [/b][/quote]
Those are valid arguments. But it still isn't going to keep guns out of the hands of people that want to get them. Just like, current anit-drug legislation isn't keeping drugs out of the hands of people that want them. What it will do, is lower the rate of murders/crimes of passion where firearms are involved. But that wont lower the rate of murders/crimes of passion. They will just use what is handy. IE: Axe, butcher knife, golf club, etc.
Yes, legal guns which are purchased and stolen do add to the problem. OTOH I don't beleive that there is a huge black market for weapons right now, but it still exsists. Which IMO is a good thing. There is already a huge black market for narcotics, and the drug lords are getting stupid rich off of. You make guns illegal, you are going to make a huge black market for guns. They will get shipped over (in greater numbers, as i am sure it already happens) from other countries to be sold illegally. You are just going to make the bad guys richer. And when the bad guys have the guns, and you don't, bad guys win.