QUOTE(StrangeSox @ Apr 18, 2007 -> 10:27 AM)
Unfortunately, we live in reality and not idealism.
You would never have a hope of eliminating black market guns, just as you have no hope of eliminating things like drugs. The profits are just too high.
Not sure what else to say, but I would just like to point out how interesting it is to compare owning a gun to addictive, illegal substances like drugs.
So, you trust the government with enough atomic weapons to end civilization, you trust them with an army that could overrun any other army in the world, with equipment that could use conventional weapons to kill millions extremely rapidly, but you don't trust them to be the only ones with guns.