Hit a nerve did I?
It's precisely because I am in favor of an individual and healthy 2nd. Amendment that I am not in favor of legalizing pot at this time. The rise in crimes of public violence and assassinations began with Kennedy signing the Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963 that let the mentally ill out on the street. The rise of drug abuse, crime and violence was a result.
ALL of the notorious cases of gun violence in this country, since the Sixties, have been committed by the mentally ill being able to wander the streets of this country. These mentally ill also drove the increase in drug abuse. The mentally ill are the reason that the 2nd Amendment is being infringed. Or is that too high a concept to wrap your drug addled brain around?
So shove your, "Why are you here?" where it belongs, you friggin ignorant moron!
If you can show that the numerical increase in drug users is not substantially larger than the number of persons released by the Community Mental Health Centers Act, we'll have something to talk about. Otherwise you'll have failed to account for the former number.
Always an effective posting strategy.
>>>So shove your, "Why are you here?" where it belongs, you friggin ignorant moron!>>>
I have reported you for abuse.
Questioning your reason for being on a conservative website when you obviously have a thing for limiting freedoms of private citizens is not quite the same as calling you an ignorant moron.
Again, horsefeathers. The second amendment is being infringed because the notion of an armed populace scares many politicians, and for good reason I might add. Now, they use the rise in crime and drug abuse as an excuse, but it's not the real reason. In fact, as we know, crime drops when the law abiding are armed.
The attacks on the second amendment started well before the '63 law that you cite. The first major attack at the federal level came in the 1930s, with the passage of the ('34) National Firearms Act, and the ('38) Federal Firearms Act. For those, especially the former, they used the crime caused by the prohibition of alcohol as the excuse, even though by then, prohibition had been repealed, although the crime syndicates remained. Then there was the 1968 Gun Control Act, which was passed using as the excuse events that happened after your '63 law, but not so much after that the societal effects had yet had enough time to grow enough to be really be noticeable.