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October 19, 2005

Why Gun Laws are Dangerous

Posted by Eric at 1:59 pm. Filed under: General

John Stossel has an excellent piece discussing gun legislation today.

Guns are dangerous. But myths are dangerous, too. Myths about guns are very dangerous, because they lead to bad laws. And bad laws kill people.

I wanted to know why the laws weren’t working, so I asked the experts. “I’m not going in the store to buy no gun,” said one maximum-security inmate in New Jersey. “So, I could care less if they had a background check or not.”

“There’s guns everywhere,” said another inmate. “If you got money, you can get a gun.”

Talking to prisoners about guns emphasizes a few key lessons. First, criminals don’t obey the law. (That’s why we call them “criminals.”) Second, no law can repeal the law of supply and demand. If there’s money to be made selling something, someone will sell it.


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