[ClearCase_guy]

There's a thread a little higher called "And Now for Some Good News" from the Washington Post. It contains this:

Violent crime rates remain at the lowest levels in the history of the Bureau of Justice Statistics' survey (which started in 1973). We are experiencing the sharpest decline in teen crime in modern history.

Why the urgent push for a "safer society"? Why the push to legalize drugs? Seems to me that we're pretty safe, and it seems to me that giving the Green Light to rampant drug use might end up hurting a lot of folks.

[eazdzit]

You posted; "Violent crime rates remain at the lowest levels in the history of the Bureau of Justice Statistics' survey (which started in 1973). We are experiencing the sharpest decline in teen crime in modern history. "

It has been suggested that the decline in crime is directly connected to the availability of abortion to the low income unwed mothers.

I agree with the analysis.

The main reason to legalize drugs is to take the profit out of selling them. The next good reason is to reduce the crimes committed by users trying to get enough money for a fix. The biggest benefit will be derived from taking the whipping post away from law enforcement.

:)Easy Does It:)