Reducing homicide rates isn’t the point? Then we seem to be at cross purposes.

This is all fine. Wouldn’t stop mass shootings.

Kids like being molested?

Tax cuts pay for themselves: you have less money to spend.

Why is everyone so insistent that businesses won’t or can’t leave?

It is much more difficult to kill someone with the next most used implement to a firearm.

It is much more difficult to kill someone without a firearm than with one.

What did they do?

While an outright ban on alcohol would greatly improve our society it’s just not realistically possible (I’m assuming you were going to bring up the 18th amendment). It can be easily made in homes and is a vice going back throughout human history.

1) There is little evidence that a significant black market would develop in the face of enhanced gun control measures.

Right???

Ball’s Crystals. 

Who said anything about legalizing sex without consent?

What’s the issue?

If you ban alcohol, the world will be safer. A much bigger impact than banning guns.

~3%, or 10 million Americans. That’s a huge black market to fund massively criminal shit.

You just answered your own question.

The same places all our manufacturing jobs went.

We can save more lives by banning other things no one “needs.”

Government contractor waste is a separate issue, which surely would continue in our government monopolized health system. I am against waste.