Remember I was 17, so even if I knew how to get one legally I couldn’t have. Personally I think guns will find a way to be available. Criminals don’t care about the law. With the way prison was, with all the securities in place, We still managed to sneak stuff in. You just have to find a person corrupt enough to do it. Plus with the way the constitution is set up, it would take an awful lot to get the second amendment repealed, and I don’t have faith in Congress to do that

Americans always say this in spite of the evidence that there is direct correlation between gun crime and arms sales.

How do you hold that belief while looking at other countries where nearly all experts (American and otherwise) agree that firearm control has lead to a reduction in gun crime, especially of mass shootings? It seems like just throwing your hands up without even trying when the rest of the world implemented gun control when faced with mass shootings, and it seems to have made an improvement.

And infact criminals aren't stupid. If the person at the shop you want to rob, or a rival dealer, or whatever is unlikely to have a gun then why have a gun yourself? Get caught robbing a shop, you will go to prison. Get caught with a gun and you will go down for much much longer. The only real firearms crime is in a few extremely deprived areas, and extremely high level crime like international drug smuggling. Because by making them illegal and hard to obtain illegally, then punishing harshly any people who possess them, you decentivise firearms because they carry a much greater risk than benefit to most criminals, which in turn reduces the need for other people to arm themselves.

Do you know that the last two mass shootings in Britain were carried out by someone with a legal firearm? Since semi-automatic weapons have been banned there has not been a mass shooting with one. The people causing the problem are the ones with legally owned firearms.

You are over 200% more likely to be shot and die in the US than in the UK. This is based on the murders per 100k people so the size of the US is not an excuse. That should be a wake up call combined with the mass shootings you have every other month.