Are we winning the war on murder? How about burglary and robbery?
Ones rights end where another's rights begin.
Murder, burglary and robbery violate the rights of others.
Possessing a flower gifted from the garden of God does not.
"...rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our own will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law,’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual." - Thomas Jefferson