And dimwits can’t tell the difference between a behavior altering drug known for the violent behavior of its users and a gun.
The land of logic, that terra incognita that awaits your discovery.
They were already bad people. They didn’t need ‘drugs’ to influence their bad behavior. Good luck to ya.
So if somebody drives drunk, they aren’t responsible since the alcohol lowered their inhibitions? Should we ban alcohol too?
If it is so obvious that drugs cause this behavior, then people are responsible for deciding to take the drugs when they were sober. It is an argument for drug possession being a death sentence, more than it is an argument for the drug war.
The bottom line is junkies should be allowed to screw up, and all the crimes they commit should have ten to twenty times the penalty to take them out of circulation.
Instead, we have a surveillance state that is listening inside innocent people’s homes, illegally, in entire neighborhoods, through the ultra-sensitive triangulating mic arrays on the pole surveillance they install when a high end surveillance outfit moves in (and they rarely move out once established in an area where drugs are within 50 miles). We have government just seizing people’s cash, on a whim, because they want a bigger budget. We have a Fed police state of unimaginable intrusiveness and power, and it all may be for hire by anybody connected behind the scenes because they operate so outside the envelope of legality that they privatize much of it to hide it from view and create deniability, and for what? I think Michael Hastings bumped into them, and when he tried to get away to do a story on it they killed him. Literally, that is what you are supporting.
And we are wasting billions, if not trillions we don’t have, when if we just pulled it back and legalized hard drugs, probably 90% of the junkie population would overdose in the first year, and the rest would get themselves imprisoned.
I’m tired of losing freedoms for junkies. They want Meth? Let them have it. If they do something stupid, lock them up forever, let them OD and die, or let a homeowner kill them.
Obviously we have never spent more on the Drug war than now, and this case is what you got with your method. It’s nothing but failure, and now people have the government and the junkies to deal with. And you want to use this case as an example of why we need your method - which produced this case in the first place.
Sorry, but I actually prefer having to deal with junkies in a free society to having to deal with the all powerful oppressive privatized domestic government force of spooks and potential government empowered thieves you want to maintain.
And it is not even close.