RE: Colorado Copycat.
July 29, 2012 at 12:45 pm
(This post was last modified: July 29, 2012 at 12:46 pm by Autumnlicious.)
For any market, there is also an accompanying resale, off-the-books market, depending on how large, popular or hospitable the parent market is. There will always be something like that, because people will sell to each other when they wish to get rid of a product.
This is why the argument Tiberius and others make about the "black market" is a canard -- already within any market comes attempts at selling from consumer to consumer. That is inevitable.
The real question here that Tiberius and Co. should be asking (instead of bullshitting about some criminal obtaining a weapon), does gun control effectively reduce the secondary consumer-to-consumer resale market (that set includes the black market. It also includes grey zones, etc )? Is there something that will? Can this ever be solved?
There will always be grey and black markets. And there will always be people willing to sell to their local peer group -- a handgun, bag of weed, computer, etc,.
On a side note, I've always wondered what is going to happen when some guy either attempts to commit a massacre (or simply waves around a gun) and is shot at by some other gun toting American, what will the police do about it?
My guess is shoot both people, even if one (right or wrong) believed they were returning fire at the original attacker.
This is why the argument Tiberius and others make about the "black market" is a canard -- already within any market comes attempts at selling from consumer to consumer. That is inevitable.
The real question here that Tiberius and Co. should be asking (instead of bullshitting about some criminal obtaining a weapon), does gun control effectively reduce the secondary consumer-to-consumer resale market (that set includes the black market. It also includes grey zones, etc )? Is there something that will? Can this ever be solved?
There will always be grey and black markets. And there will always be people willing to sell to their local peer group -- a handgun, bag of weed, computer, etc,.
On a side note, I've always wondered what is going to happen when some guy either attempts to commit a massacre (or simply waves around a gun) and is shot at by some other gun toting American, what will the police do about it?
My guess is shoot both people, even if one (right or wrong) believed they were returning fire at the original attacker.
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