tom
He has a well known position where he hates guns, wants them all banned, etc. His reasons are because they do no societal good, they only harm people and so on
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Liar. (Do you even know how to quote people ?)
My actual position is that guns should be treated the same way automobiles are. License the owner, require the owner to pass tests, license and register the gun, annually. require insurance. require gun permit transfers to be registered...
Also limit which guns may be owned. (You don't allow racing cars on the roads.)
Guns primary function is to kill.
Drugs have their uses.
tom
Drugs do us no good, they harm and kill people every day
That's a pretty broad statement.
Drugs have a purpose, and many of them used for recreation also have therapeutic uses. Especially prescribed pain killers.
Abuse of these drugs is not good. But the likelihood of over dose death from marijuana?
I've said that criminalizing drug use, is bad. I didn't say that drug use was good.
The effect of criminalizing drugs has just been to put people in prison and promote unsafe behaviours. The attendant problems manifest from forcing drugs underground are also the problem.
Fate
Why don't you propose making heroin legal in the US? Go ahead. Take your show to cities in the northeast where people are dropping dead every day from heroin and tell them how making it easier to get will save lives.
Heroin use is currently illegal. And yet "people are dropping dead every day from heroin", according to a source I just read. So its illegality doesn't seem to contribute to solving the problem of addiction or the attendant problems caused by its criminalization.
If heroin were legally available from a doctor those who wanted it could go to the doctor and
- avoid over dosing
- be certain of the quality of the drug and avoid needle diseases.
- keep their money out of the hands of criminals (dealers)
- if provided free, or very low cost, the drug would eliminate the motivation for these addicts to commit property crimes.
- would eliminate dealer pushing the drugs onto new users...
- lower incarceration costs, enforcement costs and incarceration costs.
- families would have professional support that could help with the addicts problem. perhaps wean them off the drug. And certainly help them function. There is such a thing as a functioning addict.
Fate
If you think there is an easy solution to the drug problem, you're not paying attention.
I hardly think copying the Swiss would be easy.
But it would be a helluva a lot more effective than continuing the status quo, which is definitely not working for anyone, except private prison operators.
fate
You didn't say you were talking about Denmark. I would only have known that by looking at your link
So you aren't curious enough to check out the source of the supporting evidence?
But you can't wait to post a poorly thought out rejoinder?