Identify the Main Point or Issue in the Following Passage

question 42

Essay

Identify the main point or issue in the following passage, and decide whether the rest of the passage offers reasons for the main point (such as, whether the passage contains an argument), whether it illustrates (provides examples for) the main point, whether it explains the point, is irrelevant to the point, and so on.
"Gun control laws don't work. What is worse, they act perversely. While legitimate users of firearms encounter intense regulation, scrutiny, and bureaucratic control, illicit markets easily adapt to whatever difficulties a free society throws in their way. Also, efforts to curtail the supply of firearms inflict collateral damage on freedom and privacy interests that have long been considered central to American public life."
-Daniel Polsby, "The Promise of Gun Control," in The Atlantic Monthly

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Definitions:

Effective Interest Method

A method of computing the amortized cost of a bond and the interest expense over its life by applying a constant interest rate.

Bond Discounts

The variance between a bond's stated value and the amount it fetches on the market when it ends up selling for beneath that stated value.

Bond Premiums

The amount by which the market price of a bond exceeds its face value, typically due to interest rates being lower than the bond's coupon rate.

Term Bond

A term bond is a type of bond that has a fixed maturity date at which the principal amount is to be paid back to investors.