Banning guns versus banning alcohol.

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13. Alcohol can be made in a bathtub, in pots and pans, in old rain barrels

It's one of the easiest things to make, although it's more difficult to make it palatable. I knew someone who taught school on a rez in the far north, kept a plastic trash can next to the wood stove filled with water, molasses, and bread yeast. He said it was awful but it was alcohol and got you there.

While you can make a zip gun fairly easily, it is nearly impossible to aim, requires reloading with every shot, and tends to cook itself fairly quickly.

However, no sane person is calling for a ban on all guns, just the one that make a mass murderer's job really easy. No one thinks such a ban will be absolutely perfect, the black market and sociopathic greed being what they are. What it will do is slow things down and sometimes that's enough.