This would enable the officer to perform a reasonable-suspicion frisk at ease (66). Along with these alternate methods, "properly qualified private citizens" should be encouraged "to posses and carry firearms legally" (Polsby 10 of 11)."Legal restraints on the lawful purchase of guns will have little effect on the use of guns," says Wilson author of "Just Take Away Their Guns" (63). More signatures and personal information are not going to stop the criminals from purchasing their guns out of the back of a truck in a dark alley. Criminals do not buy their weapons in the stores that these laws will be imposed on, so the government will be regulating the legal use of guns with more laws. Meanwhile, the criminals are robbing banks and engaging in gang wars with unregulated, illegal guns. Therefore, tougher gun legislation will not work as effectively as reasonable-suspicion frisks, add-ons, and gun detectors would. Stricter gun control laws will only make it more difficult for law abiding citizens to purchase guns and therefore, will deter them from buying a gun to protect themselves from the illegal guns being carried by criminals. Even if guns were banned, criminals would not just disappear. For example, murderers would just use the next most convenient weapon, knives, axes, or bats. Are we going to ban all of those potentially dangerous objects also? ...
