Would rape, robbery, burglary and murder stop if we rescinded the laws against them?
Prohibition causes more harm than good
Alaska Wolf said: Would rape, robbery, burglary and murder stop if we rescinded the laws against them?
One of the dumbest questions ever posted on FR Alaska Wolf. You are totally ignoring the effect repealing prohibition had on organized crime. Took them a long time to over come that one, until the found illegal drugs to replace the alcohol they were bootlegging.
Prohibition also caused more alcoholism than before the law was passed and many, many deaths from poison booze.
Trying to compare rape, robbery and burglary to outlawing drugs is simply stupid and on the lines of an argument the left would use about gun control.
Outlawing drugs only accomplishes a few things. One: low level dealers get caught, the main guys don't. Two: Many in the government get a kickback from drug dealers. Three:Gangs are given money by which they buy weapons and equipment used in killing other gang members and lots of innocent victims. Four: honest law abiding citizens and legal residents lose their freedom due to over restrictive laws. Confiscation of a person's home and other property on a pretext is just one of them. Not being able to carry your own cash around is another handcuff on the every day citizen.
The only reason you and others have for banning drugs is purely moralistic. Either your brain is rotted or you simply won't admit the truth to yourself. If you are against gun control laws and see that they fail to work, how can you even begin to support the idiotic drug laws of this country and the freedom sapping war on drugs?
They are different issues. Prohibition of harm to another, is very different than prohibition of possession and ownership of a thing for an individual. Do you have the intelligence to understand that?
For example, John Lott has conclusively proved that prohibiting firearms ownership increases firearms crime and other violent crime, all over the world. In this case, prohibition has an opposite effect of what's intended.