Do more of these kids have guns, or friends with guns?
Or fathers living in their homes with them?
Guns do what their missing father don’t do.
Protect these boys and affirm their “manhood”.
“Do more of these kids have guns, or friends with guns?”
I worked (serially) for two huge companies that got their floor personnel off the welfare roles. These were mostly black men who resentfully took the jobs because if they didn’t they’d get knocked off welfare anyway. A white employee acted as a pawn broker and loaned them money for their guns. When he showed them to me he had roughly 50, from a workforce of 300. I have never seen guns like these. They were foreign knockoffs of other designs and so poorly made that the castings hadn’t been polished or trimmed before bluing. I didn’t know cr*p like this was available. But, they worked just fine.
So, keeping you and me from owning a Smith or a Kahr at $500 will not stop these guys from getting “guns” at $50.