DammitBoy
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Advocates of a nation wide gun ban, of which there are few to none in the US, don't expect such an initiative to be 100% effective in preventing criminals from owning guns. Rather, the expectation of gun ban proponents is to reduce the number of criminals who have access to guns and thus reduce incidents of murder. They also are looking at long term in which laws would eventually whittle away the number of available guns on the street thus making supply much lower than demand. I doubt anybody expects that high level criminals will ever be unable to get guns but rather that scarcity and associated black market costs would put them out of the reach of most common criminals. Also, mentally disturbed people like Adam Lanza, who generally lack criminal connections, would become unable to get them. Most gun control advocates I know realize that a national gun ban in the US is completely unrealistic because there are so many existing in private hands. Effective confiscation would require draconian measures and other major infringements of civil liberties.
To use your phrase: utter nonsense. All we have to do is look at prohibition in the past or current prohibitions to understand that it does not work at all.
I completely lack any criminal connections and within the hour I could buy any prohibited drug you care to name.