"When a product or service is prohibited if there is still sufficient demand for it, it is provided by the black market at an inflated price. Often this is a price beyond that which potential customers can afford to pay for through legitimate employment, so they must take to crime to pay for their desires.

This is an area in which the entire world has failed to learn from the history of alcohol prohibition in the U.S.

Additionally with regard to firearms, it is critical to public safety that individuals, particularly the frail and elderly, have access to the tools to defend themselves with."