Some people naively believe that, in the absence of guns, criminal violence would be much reduced. They are quite wrong about that prediction: on the contrary, the strong would be able to bully the weak and we would be back in the Dark Ages or the modern Third World. Further, thinking that a mature technology such as firearms manufacture can be legislating out of existence is an opium pipe dream. Guns, in their basic form, are not very complex. Anyone with basic tools can make them and ammunition for them. Moreover, roughly 500 million functional firearms already exist. …
