Yes, that has been an argument that has played out before. IIRC the 68 Gun Control Act restricted imports of these types, but the American ingenuity brought us Jennings and Raven and a host of other cheap pocket guns. It sort of highlights the absurdity of trying to outlaw a certain type of thing. Anything.
Like as soon as medical weed became legal, it opened the flood gates to obtain it legally, as it wasn’t that hard to get a paper saying you needed it.
But back to the point, there IS a valid argument that poor people deserve the right to defend themselves. Heck, they are the ones most likely to NEED it. The Hi-Point gets a lot of shit in gun circles, but it actually is a fairly reliable, affordable firearm, though it is ugly as all fuck.
And people wonder why I use Chicago as an example. They have the “common sense gun laws”. The laws are being circumvented. And it isn’t their laws stopping or promoting crime, it is the unique situation within Chicago, the gang culture, the pockets of bad poverty, etc etc. Focusing on a tool isn’t what you should be doing.
Tell me. Say your teacher calls you and says “Your kid is stabbing people with scissors at school.” So what do you do? You take away his scissors, right? Makes sense. Only he takes another kids scissors and stabs them. So you convince the school to institute a “no scissors” policy. So now no one is getting stabbed with scissors, but your kids is running around punching other kids in the nose. And then he finds a math compass…
Or, or, hear me out, maybe you would address the situation specifically with that kid, right? If it were my kid I would be like, 'Why are you stabbing people?" I’d be very concerned and get therapy and possibly drugs if the doctors recommended it. What I wouldn’t do is try to sanitize the world so my little monster was less likely to hurt someone.
