One thing that really irritates me about the anti-gun-control crowd is that idea, &quot;if you ban guns, criminals will ignore the ban, because they are criminals and criminals ignore laws.&quot;<p>People who break one law will still obey countless others.  It&#x27;s also totally reasonable to think that someone who engaged in some kind of petty larceny would readily obey gun-restriction laws--why wouldn&#x27;t they?<p>This whole &quot;gun control won&#x27;t work because criminals ignore laws&quot; thing always struck me as a nasty piece of nonsequitor logic and identity politics, a way to &quot;other&quot; a group of people (i.e. more people who live in some counterculture way than people who have actually broken some law) as wild or deranged Hollywood-esque marauders, or a way to invent a bogeyman threat that only guns (in the hands of the so-called &quot;good guys&quot;) can stop.