So. We are paranoid to worry about them confiscating our guns, are we?

[robkelk]

Making cigarettes illegal or prohibitively expensive via taxation has created a thriving underground market for them in places like NY. Prohibition made alcohol illegal. What did that do? Made organized crime into the power that it was. The Mafia owed it's ascendancy to prohibition. What's the drug war done? Given power to the drug cartels in Mexico. Look at what happened there. Look at what's happened to us. There's no upside. Make guns illegal? Same thing. People will start trading and selling them illegally without reporting them. It already happens to some extent, but normally law-abiding people will start doing so.

[citation needed]

That doesn't match the evidence around here - "normally law-abiding people" do not buy, sell, or trade firearms illegally despite the expense of becoming and remaining licensed to do so legally in Canada.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012