Gun Control & RKBA

"Making it difficult for a law abiding individual to own and acquire a gun will not prevent a criminal from obtaining one."

This is not entirely true. Many times guns are stolen from law-abiding citizens and end up in criminal hands. Thus, if law-abiding citizens are prevented from having guns, then the total pool of criminal guns should be smaller.

Furthermore, consider that sometimes a law-abiding gun owner later becomes a criminal. My logic again holds: if law-abiding citizens are prevented from having guns, then the total pool of criminal guns should be smaller.


On the other hand, I do agree with you that "if guns are criminalized, then only criminals would have guns". But, over the long term, the supply of outstanding illegal guns would contract if 1.) no new guns were manufactured (this would presumably not be allowed if guns were banned outright, except for police and military use), and 2.) police destroyed any guns they confiscated. Once again, this would take a long time, due to the number of guns already in this country.