Gun Control & RKBA

some things, things like weaponry - like hand grenades - are extremely hard to get in most places where they are banned... you may know some guy, but I can guarantee that I don't know anyone in America that does know someone that can get me a grenade.

If I could buy them over the counter at a gun shop they'd be used in these school massacres.

Prohibition has worked.

Cigarettes... we've reduced usage by almost 60%, by education, tougher laws, and particularly higher prices, making them prohibitively expensive. You say there will always be 15% addicted, well... imagine if we could lower gun violence by 60%. How many 10s of thousands of lives would you save in a decade?

There's also NOT pedophilia all around you, relative to non-prohibited sex. Pretending that prohibiting pedophilia hasn't made it less common is a bit of a joke.

Laws DO work. Obviously. If you banned hand guns the number of people willing to illegally have handguns would be MUCH lower than the percentage that legally do have them now.

I always laugh at the tired old idea that nothing can be stopped by the law, because of criminals, like all of society of criminal. It's not. Most of society if not interested in hand grenades, bootleg cigarettes or murder. And most of society would not be interested in illegal handguns... in the same way that most gun owners didn't secretly buy black market assault weapons during the AWB - and bit of prohibition that worked.