If you reduce the number of firearms in circulation, you reduce the amount of firearms that are able to be used for crimes. Where do you think most of the guns used in crimes come from? At one point they were legally owned by someone. If you make it impossible for people to legally own one, where are the criminals going to get them from?
Apart from that, some studies of the CCW law shows that those being issued with licences are also the ones committing the crimes. All criminals have to begin being criminals somewhere. Someone who's never been arrested for anything in his life can easily go and buy a gun (and when I say 'never arrested,' that covers people who have not yet committed a crime and those who have never been CAUGHT committing a crime).
Laws reducing gun ownership do EVERYTHING to affect those who are disobeying the laws. All you have to do is look at Europe to see that. Of course, there are always going to be criminals who find ways of getting guns, but their numbers are vastly reduced. Vastly. And the chance that they will actually use them on unarmed civilians is also reduced.
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