I hope you get to live in a place where all your surrounding neighbors are using heavy drugs like meth, crack and heroin.
I’ve been there. Your tune would change about drug use very quickly. Drugs turn some people into psychological basket cases and then this kind of shit happens to innocent people like this little girl.
To draw comparison with guns is ridiculous. Guns are used for self defense. How are drugs used for self defense? Drugs and addiction turns some people into animals. Guns don’t, but mix a drug addict and a gun and Voila’, bad shit happens.
People will hurt and harm people with or without drugs. Like the people who killed this poor child. I blame them, not the drugs. Just as I blame the individual and not society for the problems in this world. Good luck to ya.
It isn’t a ridiculous comparison.
The comparison between guns and drugs is that they are both inanimate objects. Neither of them are capable of doing anything on their own.
To blame a gun for a crime is ridiculous.
To blame a drug for a crime is ridiculous.
People commit crimes. A person decides to do something heinous, and then they do it.
People committed this crime. Meth did not commit this crime.
Now, is it possible that meth use, even a single time, the first time, can influence a person’s thought process in such a way that a crime is committed as a result of that thought process? Yes, it most certainly can. Meth use can cause hallucinations, paranoia and psychosis. It is obviously a very dangerous drug.
Similarly, can a gun influence a person’s thought process in such a way that a crime is committed as a result of that thought process? Yes. Certainly, if a person is angry enough at another person, and then think hey, I’ve got a gun, why don’t I just go over there and shoot that person? Bang, dead. Has happened before, will happen again.
But in either scenario, the responsible party is the person who decided to commit a crime. The meth is not ultimately responsible for the decision, the gun is not ultimately responsible for the decision. The sentient being who knows right from wrong is responsible for the decision. They will answer to God, not the meth, not the gun.
For the record, I do not support the legalization of meth. That is some dangerous, bad ass sh*t. I have never done meth, and I have never known any meth addicts, at least none who told me or revealed to me that they were such.
However, it should also be noted, the the law against meth did not stop these people from using meth or committing this crime, nor did the law against rape or murder, so I really don’t know what the answer here is, or even if there is one. Bad things happen in this world, and some people are really evil.
What a beautiful little girl. God bless and keep her. Man, that picture makes me very sad.