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Am I happy guns are off the streets? Hell yes. Would I be happier with sane drug laws so as to not necessitate a black market? Double hell yes.
by neilsimp1 6y ago
Am I happy guns are off the streets? Hell yes. Would I be happier with sane drug laws so as to not necessitate a black market? Double hell yes.
- scarface74 6y agoOk. Guns are off the street. It’s not like it’s not easy for criminals to get more guns.
- red_admiral 6y agoIn the UK specifically, it's definitely possible to get guns with the right connections, but it's not completely easy.
- crispyporkbites 6y agoIn the UK I can pick from 26k guns available here: https://www.guntrader.uk/ https://www.guntrader.uk/
- luckylion 6y agoThat wouldn't change anything regarding the guns or the amount of crime - career criminals don't do it because they believe in selling drugs, they sell drugs because it's an easy way to make money. In that regard: keeping a black market for drugs may even be a good thing. Otherwise they'd move on to other ventures that might be more harmful, kidnapping, murder for hire etc.
- yboris 6y agoThat's a bold claim. Any empirical evidence on your side?
- luckylion 6y agoThat career criminals are career criminals, not ideological "prohibition is bad, therefore I sell drugs" hippies? Are you serious?
- yboris 6y ago"career criminal" is begging the question. You claim these people exist, and by definition they are going to continue crime rather than find legitimate ways of making money. Furthermore, you're suggesting that when their way of making money through crime disappears they will migrate towards worse crime. That's a bold claim.
- asdff 6y agoPeople don't get physically addicted and spend their every last cent on murder for hire after murder for hire. Think of how stupidly lucrative a substance like crack is, it is water to an addict.