> - In many countries guns are illegal. Yet criminals do own them. If encryption becomes illegal, criminals would still use it The main reason why recent terro

> - In many countries guns are illegal. Yet criminals do own them. If encryption becomes illegal, criminals would still use it The main reason why recent terror attacks in Europe used trucks and knives was because guns are really hard to buy in most countries. Even on the black market it'll be hard to get guns in many European countries. Not saying that there's no black market but most people wouldn't have the contacts to get any. So outlawing helps a lot and while it doesn't reduce gun crime by 100%, it probably reduces it by >90%. While encryption is easier to get online (no physical shipping), I doubt many people have the knowledge to identify good encryption without backdoors. Most would probably fall for mechanisms planted by intelligence services.