At the moment I can buy a beer in a corner store.<p>During prohibition, it was much harder (and more expensive) to get beer (or liquor), and more liquor than beer was consumed at a considerably higher price. One outcome was significantly lower alcohol consumption and all that that means (lower deaths by cirrhosis, lower city drunkenness arrests).<p>If we take prohibition as an analogy, then sure, a dedicated criminal will still be able to get guns. However, a casual street-level criminal is going to have to work harder to get them because they&#x27;re no longer available in the mall or from the pawn shop, and he&#x27;s going to have to pay ten times as much to get one from Benny in the pool hall. That&#x27;ll significantly reduce the number of guns out there, and <i>that</i> is what creates the environment and the expectation that results in cops shooting civilians.