John Stossel Makes a Good Point about Gun Control

John Stossel, investigative journalist on 20/20, makes some interesting points about gun control on RealClearPolitics in a piece called Myths About Gun Control. It's worth a read. One passage that caught me up short and make me pause to think for a second:

I wanted to know why the laws weren't working, so I asked the experts. "I'm not going in the store to buy no gun," said one maximum-security inmate in New Jersey. "So, I could care less if they had a background check or not."

"There's guns everywhere," said another inmate. "If you got money, you can get a gun."

Talking to prisoners about guns emphasizes a few key lessons. First, criminals don't obey the law. (That's why we call them "criminals.") Second, no law can repeal the law of supply and demand. If there's money to be made selling something, someone will sell it.