Posted on 10/05/2016 5:45:29 PM PDT by Kaslin
Maybe I missed it, but where in the article does it say that? ....
“BTW: Who keeps the cartels in business? ILLEGAL DRUG USERS”
You’re precisely wrong on that. The users provide the revenue, but the legal system, such as it is, provides the profitability. The cost of morphine sulfate legally obtained is about $25 for 120 tablets with a prescription. The cartels can’t operate on the thin profit margins legal drugs offer.
We don’t execute murderers. And we somehow think the death penalty will be implemented in the US for drug trafficking? Not a chance.
Well if you’re serious about fighting a war on drugs, that’s what you do. Any thing else is half-assed.
LOL
You folks are a riot.
You can’t grasp that the users of illegal drugs are the ones that fund the cartels.
End the illicit use of drugs, the cartels find other things to do with their time.
Place your blame where it belongs. It’s the grown up thing to do.
Social services are useless. Family matters should be taken care of by family without state involvement. Further, police are a failed paradigm when it comes to crime control. Check out the homicide rates before police were widely used (circa 1850’s) versus the homicide rates today. Why are we paying billions of dollars for police when the end results are so abysmal?
yep
Sad but true...
AMEN TO ALL OF THAT!!!!
It’s not GUNS that police are needed for.
I live in NYC (Staten Island) but there are so many business owners with carry permits and guns I’ve lost count. Then there’s the, er, fellas.
No gunshot in this neighborhood in 18 years i’ve been HERE.
Kids play too loud too late, after midnight, I TELL them that’s it. And they’re not my kids :)
No one gets mad. Their Pop is too lenient but he apologizes to me when it happens.
And as for hurting one of my nieces and nephews, the SS and police are worthless, and if it did happen, i’d be in jail for a long time.
It should not be up to strangers!!
It should be up to kin and friends.
My grandfather on mom’s side was a brutally cruel mafioso father. To be honest though, there’s no real correlation.
I’ve known Many gangsters who treat their kids like gold. Too much!!
Anyway, so my uncle Harry (WWI suicide squad) went after him with a gun for beating my grandmother. That helped a lot more than any Social worker could have.
Sure. Children lives matter.
Sort of.
I suppose it all depends on what your definition of "matters" is...
The heroin epidemic started in the mid1990s when Bill Clinton started allowing mass illegal immigration into the U.S. via the Mexican border. It didn't become an issue with the MSM until George Bush became president.
my question for you is how would you handle being accused of drug abuse and having your kids stolen by a sister or brother that might or might not have other isues......at the point of drug abuse , violence or sex abuse allegation an agency out side of the family has to step in... It is never good to have the state take care of theses issues but a family member unilaterally stepping in has the potential to be worse.
If you showed me the tats, I could answer that...
I just stole that truism...
It should be up to kin and friends.
We have no disagreement...
Unless the whole family group are completely dysfunctional, which happen at times...
Or not.
I very much doubt that junkies are fastidious, when high, about appropriate doses...
Which bothers me not one whit, if they are childless.
yeah, you’re right. then what? I thought that for a second.
There WAS a lot of abuse way back when when women were afraid to report it.
Ah, I’m not NEARLY bright enough to have an answer to this situation!!
The church, the police, local authorities if they have the spine...
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