suntzu wrote:
And what of the gangs, and the opium growers and the coca growers and the people making a fortune off of the misery of children? EVERY time a parent, or guardian buys drugs they are STEALING food from the mouths of their children, and setting their children up to follow in their footsteps.
And everytime someone buys a SUV they don't need, or a beer or a video game, or a movie ticket or a nice pair of pants they are stealing food from the mouths of their children! Won't someone THINK of the CHILDREN?
Buying a movie ticket is a hell of a lot differnt than buying meth.
I am saying if you legalize drugs, these things would go away in a lot of cases. How many illegal aspirin factories do you know of? How many illegal factories making medicinal drugs? Legalizing drugs would make them far cheaper, meaning more food in the hands of those children. Keeping drugs illegal keeps the price high, which hurts children. If you cared about the children you'd legalize drugs to lower the price.
There are no illegal aspirin factories. So legalize drugs in order to help the children? You actually want to have a society that still has some brain cell left right?
suntzu wrote:
Do you realize the slippery slope you are wanting us to start down?
Do you realize the slippery slope you want us to continue down? You are saying that adults should not have the ability to control what they put in their own bodies. If I am not able to make the decision of if I should or shouldn't smoke weed, I should not be able to make the decision to own a gun. Think about it. You are saying A PLANT should be illegal, but a gun should be allowed in homes. How about this, a human being can decide for themselves what is best for...themselves. Imagine that. If I am responsible and want a gun, I should be able to have one. If I am responsible and want to use drugs, I should be able to do that. Neither one hurts anyone. The moment I step beyond that, and actually hurt someone, that is a different story.
If an adult wants to do drugs that is his or her business--as long as you don't interfere with anyone else. Meaning you don't interfere with the rights of any other person. Now here is the thing--you know as well as I do--society isn't this responsible.
suntzu wrote:
Honestly--where does it end?
Best case it ends in freedom. It ends in a world where I as an adult, and as a rational human being, get to make decisions about what I put in my body, what I spend my money on, what weapons I own. You do not get to make those choices for me, until my choices hurt you in an actual way.
Freedom to this extent has not existed in my lifetime. Now for the big question--if people want to kill themselves--why don't they put a gun in their mouths and make it quick instead of slowly killing themselves with drugs?
suntzu wrote:
Now on a better note--I would like to see the NFA repealed--but even if it wasn't the drug culture--the government would still push their anti-gun agenda and you know it.
I think the war on drugs gives them a lot more ammunition to ban guns than if it didn't exist. Drugs scare people. That fear makes them willing to act irrationally to protect themselves from that fear. Just look at how they make you feel. Being afraid of drugs is just like being afraid of guns. The object is not the thing to be afraid of, it is how a person uses it. The fear of drugs drives people to do irrational things in the name of protecting society. One of those things is gun control. The same fear the anti-gun people have of guns, is the fear you have of drugs. Responsible people can own and use guns responsibly. Responsibly people can own and use drugs responsibly. Prohibition doesn't work. It didn't work for alcohol, it currently isn't working for drugs, and it won't work in the future when they try it on guns.
