Ken
2008-02-22 09:19:40
Doodle,
Agreed, ammo would no be much harder to smuggle in than drugs. A ban would probably raise the price/reduce availability somewhat, so it could be said that it would be more effective than banning handguns, but still, it would accomplish little toward that goal.
And I still think the goal is a bad idea, but I don’t know how one could prove that. It would be hard to do a study correlating gun possession rates to crime density, excluding for every other variable, and even those result could be interpreted both ways, as there is no way of telling if gun ownership causes crime or if crime causes gun ownership.
