Drug dealers are the problem, not their guns

According to Reuters, other countries are suffering from violent drug dealers. Sometimes they do not blame legally operating gun shops for the problems, either:

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"These people had kidnapped innocent citizens a number of times, and after receiving money from their families they still killed some of their victims," Fars quoted provincial prosecutor Ebrahim Hamidi as saying.

Iran is a key transit route for narcotics smuggled from neighboring Afghanistan, which produces more than 90 percent of the world's supply of opium. More than 3,500 Iranian security personnel have been killed fighting drug smugglers since Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution. http://reut.rs/gMO1h5
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We are not suggesting that the US start to hang violators of the law. But it is worth noting that their legal system punishes the people who commit the murders, instead of punishing the people who sell things that look like the things that possible criminals might possibly use. And while that sounds convoluted... have you read the US law lately?