False equivocation.
Most people want to buy guns to protect themselves, not to murder. Yes, this includes criminals, who are protecting themselves against cops and other criminals...
You just proved my point. The image I quoted was talking about people being shot.
If people are buying guns to defend themselves, then very few people will be shot, and those who are shot will be in the act of committing a crime.
This hasn't made getting drugs more difficult. Street prices are based on supply and demand, if prices are high that's because demand is high, as supply is never low speaking from experience. All this does is cause MORE violence as the sellers try to profit as much as possible, and addicted desperate users do anything for their next fix. It does nothing to deter people from actually using the drugs, just causing even more damage in the process....
If you don't think finding drug dealers via connections isn't more difficult than walking into a store to buy them legally, I dunno what to tell you, other than that you're wrong.
People who can buy weed in legal states pay basically nothing compared to street prices. Prohibition has absolutely made it harder to obtain drugs.
LMFAO great evidence there buddy. All you've shown is if guns become illegal, there would be alot MORE deaths as people kill eachother over whatever guns they can get thier hands on... just like drugs...
If even remotely the same price increase which happened for drugs on the black market happened for guns, almost nobody would able to afford them.
California's $10 of weed cost $60+ here in Virginia. If guns which cost $100+ saw the same increase, very few people would pay the money to get one. If your concern is gang-related crime, then I agree that many gangs could still afford massively-expensive weapons. The gang violence caused to non-gang members, though, is not nearly as frequent as gang:gang violence. It's not a perfect fix, but it would certainly slow down things like mass-shootings, almost all of which are caused by non-gang members.
Would it stop the problem entirely? Of course not.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/mass-shootings-in-america/
The average age of shooters ranges from 20-49.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/24/how-much-americans-earn-at-every-age.html
We know that the average income of most people within this age would prohibit them from affording a gun at black-market prices. Again, it wouldn't stop every single person, but it would stop a lot.
Not to mention that finding a black market gun dealer is probably a bit harder than your average weed dealer. That's anecdotal, but I'd bet just about anything that the market for illegal gun-purchasers is a bit less than the market for weed-buyers.
Then, in a perfect world, if you take into account that buying drugs would be legalized, the amount of people who even deal in selling illegal assets would severely diminish. Moving up to buying guns from drugs isn't that far-fetched in today's world, but if you eliminate the drug dealers, finding gun dealers is quite a bit more difficult.
