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Banning guns will do absolutely nothing to prevent criminals from getting their hands on guns. If someone really wanted to get their hands on a gun, they can. It's NOT hard. Removing the legal right to have guns only takes guns out of the hands of people who abide by the law. The people who could put a stop to a criminal with a gun are no longer able to because the government says it's illegal.
You think if someone wants to go on a shooting spree, that they are going to be deterred by the fact that it's illegal to have a gun? I'm sure he'd have much larger legal matters on his hands than whether or not he had an illegal weapon in his posession. 32 dead by his hand? Wow, if only someone had been legally empowered to have a gun in that situation, the situation might've been a lot less severe.
Making certain things illegal only increases crime. No contest. Drugs? They're illegal but they're still around, and quite easily obtained. The drug dealing occupation is not a non-violent one in most situations. One bad deal can get you bashed, or even killed. People will always find a way to get their hands on what they want, whether its illegal or not. That's the criminal state of mind. If they want something bad enough, rules are damned. Same with guns as it is with drugs. If someone wants a gun bad enough, they drop a few words with a few people, and all of a sudden they're in a back alley dealing with auto's and glocks with some colombian guy who doesnt give half a FUCK what your mental health or background is. All he knows is you've got the green and the time.
THAT, ladies and gentlemen, is why we need to have the right to bare arms. Do you think some criminal is likely to go on a shooting spree if he knows that any number of people might have a .38 special concealed under their coat? That's not a risk they would want to play with. Gun sprees are made possible by fear and a lack of other weapons in the equation.
Gun control disarms the wrong people.
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This is completely wrong, given that the majority of illegal firearms in America come from legal sources.
Therefore if guns are harder to obtain, there is far less chance of casual shootings like at Virgina Tech - the fewer illegal guns that would remain in the system after amnesty may be available to determined killers, but through much more effort and at a higher cost.
Using the drugs comparison again, if they were legal we would have a lot more addicts harming society.