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White House mulls just banning strong end-to-end crypto. Plus: More bad stuff in infosec land

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Re: Usual Story

Careful equating alcohol/drug prohibition with gun prohibition.

Alcohol/drug use and abuse often mask untreated mental illness, so removing these "treatments" often results in a large grey/black market. In particular, it forces a significant portion of the population to choose to partake in criminal activities for what they consider normal past times.

Guns used for suicide/domestic disputes (the most significant causes of gun deaths in the US - suicides alone outweigh homicides) significantly drop with gun bans as evidenced by suicide by gunshot rates globally.

Gun deaths caused by homicides, particularly with stolen/illegally obtained/unregistered/illegal weapons aren't significantly impacted by gun prohibition, mainly because making something illegal only really affects those that abide by the law.

The evidence from countries that have implemented gun bans is that the bans don't suddenly result in the majority of the population choosing to be criminals and if buy back schemes are implemented, the majority of the public choose to sell their weapons rather than break the law.

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