There's a difference between being able to buy a gun at the gun store where your gun is registered to your name and you can only pick it up after a multi-day wa

There's a difference between being able to buy a gun at the gun store where your gun is registered to your name and you can only pick it up after a multi-day waiting period, and being able to pick up a gun at the free gun dispensary at the push of a button in a back alley with no supervision. I realize this may be a failure to communicate because of a difference in shared values but I come from the perspective that harm reduction is worthwhile even if you can't fully eliminate the problem. That you can't prevent all crimes doesn't mean you shouldn't try to prevent crime. Not to mention that the risk profile of having three-letter agencies come after you or having a random obsessive weirdo "collect a dossier" and share it with other obsessive weirdos who get a kick out of making your life miserable because they project their life failures on you is very different. Namely, if you're prominent enough to have an entire state agency try to destroy you, it's probably over an active decision you made (e.g. focusing your life on political activism) whereas for random weirdos to harass you and attempt to drive you into suicide you just need to show up on their radar long enough for them to start making up reasons to hate you.