First It's Mexico, Now It's Jamaica

[Lou McGopher]

Not necessarily. If they couldn't sell drugs they might start selling other stuff. Or, sell them legally, or even sell to nations where it is illegal.

Prohibition drives up the risk of selling the product, and drives up the profitability of it too. A high risk, high profit, illegal market attracts the sort of people willing to break the law, and take the risks, expecting to get rich quick. Very often, these are extremely ruthless people, or people who become extremely ruthless when they realize how much money there is to be made. It turns police and politicians corrupt, or at least attracts those who are corrupt to police work and politics. There's no hope of stopping the importation of the product. The harder it gets to import, the higher the prices go up, which motivates the smugglers to try harder and get more creative in their efforts. And as risk and profitability increase, so does the ruthlessness of those involved in the business. Violence and guns are their tools of the trade.

And those police and politicians not on the smugglers' payrolls, in their efforts to stop the smugglers, employ tactics and legislation that infringes on the rights and liberties of everybody, not just those involved in the commerce or consumption of illegal drugs. The drug war is used as an excuse to infringe upon the rights that are supposed to be protected under Amendments 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 9, and another excuse for the federal government to ignore Amendment 10.

This isn't an opinion on politics, or an argument on the morality or wisdom of drug sale and use. This is truth you can read daily in the news. Our rights, including the RKBA, are among the biggest victims of the war on drugs. Whatever your position on the legality and usage of these drugs, you have to recognize this. If you want drugs to be illegal, and for the government to work hard at stopping the drug trade, then you can expect plenty of gun control legislation.

I'm not saying execution, I'd say that if you face years in prison instead of a month for illegal arms trafficking less people will decide that it's worth it.

If someone is willing to pay 15 large for a couple ordinary guns, there will be no shortage of people willing to smuggle the guns.