James B. Jacobs contends in his book, “Can Gun Control Work?” (2004) – a comprehensive study of the implementation mechanics of various gun-control measures – that further efforts to extend gun control, through such measures as comprehensive licensing of all gun owners and registration of all guns, would pose massive and likely infeasible administrative burdens.
Liquor and marijuana prohibition are examples against any effort to ban or restrict guns: Some argue that the failures of prohibition efforts related to liquor and marijuana indicates the extent to which enforceability of certain laws is difficult.
It is also argued that millions of people would feel “alienated by what they deem a tyrannical law, and that those who believe they can get away with it will disobey the law.”[1]
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