Prohibition has been the core strategy of America’s War on Drugs and gun control. The problem is that this approach has completely failed to reduce the availability or negative effects of drugs and has little chance of reducing access to guns.

Rationality in both issues is not something you're going to often come across in our political climate.

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Can I x-post this to r/politics?

Wait... so they're telling me that people with a propensity to not obey existing law won't follow new laws either? shocking.

Its an interesting point but I really don't like this line of reasoning. A lot of things are illegal and controlled pretty well, while a lot aren't. Some things shouldn't be illegal, and other things should be, and the fact that 'the prohibition didn't work well' isn't good enough of a reason for both tightening or loosening restrictions.

Prohibition of items that are easily obtained or are already in regular circulation is magical thinking. The systems necessary to make it work would more than likely not be worth the intrusion or loss of privacy for the average citizen.

We can't even keep drugs out of prisons for Christs sake!

Just a modest suggestion, but maybe the people who produce movies and TV programs could quit using guns and explosions as key plot devices.