John, sorry, not interested in "made up" -  "random" -  "IF" scenarios. Only hard facts and details about the distribution matter.
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Laws only effect the attitudes of people that CARE about laws. 
Laws have zero impact on decision making for criminals that could not give a rats behind less about what the law says. They will do what they want, when they want, how they want. The "laws" for them is only designed to clean the mess up afterwards, It in NO way protects or prevents problems from happening.