Egin, your right.
Weapon Laws never prevent that criminals get Weapons.
But i think the difference is how easy can you get a Weapon in a Country nobody allowed to have weapons.
Sure the big Gangsters are have weapons. But maybe the smaller one only have Knifes or so.
And maybe those small criminals will just cut you, not shoot. Is there a difference? Don't think so.
Criminals will always get drugs and weapons, and no, they do not go to store to buy them. There are routes organized crime has and uses to get weapons. How for example terrorists get their weapons? And we are not talking about 9mm pistol, we are talking about heavy machine guns, grenades, RPG's and stuff like that.
I doubt you can buy Kalashnikov at american firearms store also.
But. Availability of weaponry to wider audiences has its cons. First and the most important, IMO, people's laziness and ignorance, as Womble sayed - in the back of the truck in some cases, in the old boots-box in the most cases. This is when kids get their hands on their parent's guns. This is when guns become really available.
Guns should be kept safe - locked away in reliable, metal container where only it's owner has the key (no, having the key right here on the hook don't work). The owner should be competent and able to use a gun. Thats it.
And I will take another excerpt from that article stating that criminal world even feares wider availability of guns:
"... if you can bear to undertake the attendant responsibilities, you should know that finding a gun in the hand of a potential victim is one of the most feared and avoided incidents a felon can imagine - feared and avoided even more than the police." (Armed & Female, P. 47)
