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And so the gun market becomes a monopoly exclusively sold to gangs, which results in gangs with enough guns to make SWAT look like kids with BB guns. Which eliminates the problem of smalltime burglary, but increases the gang problem and causes many other deleterious effects such as greater intimidation, drug smuggling, mugging, piracy, hijacking, and more organized criminals. What is more dangerous, an unaligned bunch of unaffiliated infighting thugs, or a dangerous, organized, lethal, intelligent bunch of gangsters.
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You know what the beauty of gangs is? They tend to leave petty theft alone and generally leave the public alone as well. Yea they would have a monopoly on guns, but they already have that. Only place you can get an AK if the gun store doesn't want to sell it to you is a gang. Heck you can get a bazooka if you pay them enough.
You have to understand how gang life works before you can say if it's bad for them to have a monopoly like this. Because there are two types of gangs. 1. The tupac/50cent/snoop dog teenage gangs. 2. The professional gangs.
Group number 1 is not a threat to arms trade because they are to stupid stay in it for long. What usually happens when these idiots get a gun in their hands is that they wipe each other out, so that problem solves itself. And if not they are generally not very careful about their business and tend to get arrested.
Group number 2 however is organized and exists of people who's gang inspired the rap music instead of the rap music inspiring kids to create a gang, if you get my point. These are the big guys who control entire cities, have police in their pocket and make money by shaking down store owners. These guys also have a monopoly on the gun market but they will never give up their empire to randomly go kill people. They already have stuff figured out and don't have any need to be doing it. If you take away legal weapons, the only place you can get them is with big organized gangs. And I think most people would rather install an alarm system before getting involved with these guys. And even better, if you life in one of these gang's turf then you can even pay them protection money and call them whenever someone is breaking into your house. Not only is it much more efficient, it's also much cooler to watch.
Havoc