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>>132609032
That is a very good question. I'll be thinking about this as I have never done so before.

Good thread.

Different people, drugs dont inject themselves and guns dont shoot themselves

>>132609032
bans don't work.
period.
the children always want to play with the most off limits of toys.

>>132609032
>drugs
Banning drugs is working in the Philippines precisely why you said; drug users made a conscious choice to fuck their life up, and should be treated like the wastes they are. Western countries can't ever win a "war on drugs" so long as feel-good lefties keep opening up rehab centers and addiction help clinics for votes. It's not a disease, it's a choice.

>guns
Look at your example. Ban firearms nationwide and no one can legally own one, severely limiting how they can get into the country and be distributed. Ban them just in a city (Chicago, New York) and it's 45 minutes away across a town/state border to get one, possibly quicker if you buy one from the back of a car.

>>132609921
>buy one from back of a car.
This is always going to be an option, just less so for responsible firearm owners.

>>132609032
>drugs
Only works if you can kill drug trafficking. Addicts are gonna be addicts no matter what, but dealers only care about money and will back off in the face of extreme violence.
>guns
Works in Australia because there's not that many guns there to begin with. If you were to ban guns in the USA, very few people would hand in their guns so there would still be tons of guns circulating.
>alcohol
Alcohol is easy to produce and conceal, so you can never kill the supply lines.

Basically, you have to actually remove whatever you're trying to ban from the country. You can never effectively prevent everybody from doing something, but sometimes you can target the producers and/or suppliers of something, because that's just fewer people.

The same principles go for the internet as well, by the way. That's why they can ban child porn very effectively but there's nothing they can do against hate speech: only few people can produce and spread child porn, but everybody can say the kikes belong in the oven.