Sharky54 said:
SamuelRSmith said:
Sharky54 said:
SamuelRSmith said:
Of course, if you raised the price of guns through the roof (which outlawing guns would do on the black market), then the poor people wouldn't be able to afford them. |
Changing laws on legal weapons has a very small effect on illgeal weapons.
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*facepalm* A drop in supply causes an increase in price (as long as demand stays the same). A banning in firearms will cause a decrease in some of the avenues of which illegal firearms are obtained, whilst the demand for illegal firearms will remain the same, this will cause an increase in the price of illegal firearms and put them out of reach of low-level criminals.
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Generally people don't legally buy firearms and then ilgeally sell them. Every gun has a serial numbner. You buy the gun, you get recorded as the owner. You sell that gun and its used in a murder, now you are going to jail. You don't know how all this stuff works. So stop assuming
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First of all you said "generally" which implies that this doesn't happen all of the time. Secondly, you said so earlier in the thread yourself "most guns used in crimes are either stolen or imported" (or words to that effect). If there are no guns to steal, then one of the avenues of obtaining illegal firearms has been blocked.
What's there to assume?
