zombie84 said:
I know it wouldn't work well with gangs, because they often use black market hardware anyway. But...do you guys actually know where to get guns on the street? Like, if there wasn't a store to buy a gun, I don't know where to get it. I wouldn't even know where to start. Do you just go up to some guy in a sketchy part of town and ask him if he knows someone who sells illegal weaponry? That seems implausible to me, but then I don't live in the US.
Dude, cannabis is illegal in the vast majority of the US. I have no freaking idea where to get it if I wanted some. Would I just walk up to some sketchy guy on the street and ask him if he has or knows anyone with pot for sale? I have no idea! But I do know that the state I live in has really high pot usage. I smell it while out for walks sometimes, I hear co-workers casually talk about it. It is out there, but I personally have no idea how to obtain it. Mostly because I am disinterested in obtaining it. However, if I wanted some, I am pretty sure I'd be able to find some.
Why would it be any different with guns? If I am the type that would commit armed crimes, I likely know others who are the same types, who are likely to know others, and there has to be a hook up in there someplace not too many degrees away.
...don't you think that there is a link there? You don't have to be a genius to see that one follows the other.
Of course there is. Just like a country without cars is going to have a crazy low amount of automobile related deaths.