On Sat, 04 Jul 2015 11:33:02 -0400, Justan Olphat
wrote:

On 7/4/2015 10:30 AM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Wed, 01 Jul 2015 23:26:13 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Wed, 01 Jul 2015 18:42:14 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

I'm not arguing to do nothing. I'm arguing to focus on the damn problem. You and I
aren't the problem. The hoods and druggies in the inner cities are the problem. What
do you suggest be done about them?



For one thing we can try to make their access to firearms more difficult.

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Here's a modest proposal. Since we all agree that people are killing
each other over drugs and drug money, why not decriminalize all drug
use and drug possession. Then take it a step further by supplying
registered drug users with all the drugs they want. Some European
countries have adopted a similar model and they don't have the
problems that we do. Sure, a certain number of people will OD or
otherwise become unproductive but most of them are already
unproductive. Education and good parenting should be sufficient to
keep proliferation under control.

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crickets

Why is that? How better else to eliminate all drug crimes?


Let's legalize and encourage everything that is illegal, immoral, or
fattening. ;-)

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I said nothing about "encouraging" in my proposal. Those are your
words. Let's start with talking about hard core heroin, meth or crack
cocaine addicts. They've already been "encouraged" some how or
other, most likely by other junkies trying to hook in prospective
customers. The treatment success rate for these individuals is
abysmally poor. There are few legal ways to raise the money they need
to support their addiction so they frequently turn to crime of one
sort or another, and frequently that crime is selling drugs. Selling
drugs of course is dangerous work, competetive, and fraught with the
possibility for all kinds of violence.

So which is worse in your opinion? Free government supplied drugs of
known purity with no strings attached, or successive generations of
drug addicts turned pushers and street criminals?

We've already got the latter so what is there to lose?