And I might be able to get my hands on an AK47 if I really wanted and had enough money to dedicate to it.  That is the truth of the world.  But do you believe that making it harder to acquire a weapon like that doesn&#x27;t have some benefit?<p>Back to HN&#x27;s world, one of the basic principles of human factors is &quot;make the right thing easy and the wrong thing hard.&quot;  You might not be able to prevent people from doing the wrong thing, but there is still value in making it harder to do.