I didn't say it was a good way to prevent crime. Lord knows if you want a gun, you are going to get one. I think it goes without saying that when you ban something that can cause harm, injuries and deaths will go down, but that isn't reason to ban them. Less knives would mean less cuts etc.
I didn't say it was a good way to prevent crime. Lord knows if you want a gun, you are going to get one. I think it goes without saying that when you ban something that can cause harm, injuries and deaths will go down, but that isn't reason to ban them. Less knives would mean less cuts etc.I think the point is, that is false logic.
Outlawing weapons causes more crime.
If you ban food, people would still need to eat.
If you ban defense, people still need to defend themselves.
If you ban guns, you force the person that will still use them to become an outlaw.
At the moment that the person is faced with a choice, he may decide that since society has already branded him, he might as well use the gun in a criminal manor since using it would be a crime anyway.
Less legal knives only mean more cuts are crimes.