Myth No. 3 — Guns are Bad

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I disagree that if you reduce the amount of legal guns eventually the amount of illegal guns will decrease...I believe the price will just go up...remember prohibition...didn’t stop illegal hooch

It is true that alchol will still stay if it is banned, and like you said the price of it will go up. Supply and demand. But they will be harder to obtain, if not because of the illegallity, because of the higher price. If any violent person wanted to get their hands on a firearm it will be more difficult to get it if its banned, maybe not much more, but a bit more. If the prices goes up, which it will, then the said criminal will have to work harder at getting the firearm (requireing more money) since criminals usually dont work very hard (if they did they would have an honest job, and crime is glorified as the easy way out) they will not want to work to obtain the money to get the firearm (legally or illegally) and will be more inclined to use a knife to hurt or rob someone. A knife would be safer (yet still very dangerous) then a gun, because you do have some time to react (vs no time of a bullet). Thats what I was trying to get at. There will still be illegal guns passed around, but there will be less.

look how well the states have done with 'suspected terrorist' checks

the good job the US is doing for terrorism will also make it very hard to get firearms into the country, if not better. You can spot a gun much more easily then a terrorist.