Posted on 12/06/2010 9:07:02 PM PST by darrellmaurina
PULASKI COUNTY, Mo. (Dec. 6, 2010) — Eastern District Commissioner Bill Farnham read a news brief on his desk Monday morning from the Missouri Association of County Clerks and got mad. The cause? A news brief about Gov. Jay Nixon’s announcement that he will back legislation to require prescriptions for pseudoephedrine-based cold medicines so the medicine can’t be used as the key ingredient in methamphetamine. “Why should you have to pay $100 for a doctor visit to get $6 worth of cold medicine all because of a bunch of meth heads?” Farnham asked. “I think they ought to just shoot every meth head.”
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I’m not trying to give you or others here a hard time, but consider:
1. Meth heads are fairly easy to identify after using a while.
2. In my experience, LEOs and many ordinary citizens know where the meth labs and houses are. If someone doesn’t know, it’s easy to find out.
3. The meth heads and dealers ought to be shot: this seems to be a given here.
4. The authorities are not going to shoot them (They seldom even arrest them).
5. Many here own guns.
6. Most folks here recall the Charles Bronson movies.
Why, then, aren’t folks taking this into their own hands?
I’m not putting anybody down or taunting anyone or suggesting anyone do so or anything - but what are folks reasons for not following through on their words and the impulses behind them? And if you’re not going to do the shooting, who will, or who ought to?
I’d be curious to know your thoughts..
I wasn’t serious. The government shouldn’t be shooting anyone who wasn’t sentenced to death.
Because it’s more palatable to sanction murder than to commit it?
your tag says different
Same here. Nothing else works for me. I have to scan my driver’s license and/or sign some kind of legalistic statement to get the pills, and the amount I’m allowed to buy per month is less than the maximum dosage, so I have to go without some days. Between the war on drugs and the war on terror, more and more of our lives are under direct govt control.
Also, it is the not the druggies fault the govt wants to require prescriptions.
Um, yes it IS the druggie’s fault that the government wants to require prescriptions....
Drugs that are highly abused or addicting are called controlled drugs.
Meth heads are users of a drug that is highly addictive... hence the government wants to control the sales of pseudoephedrine products, the main ingredient in meth.
There has been a long downward spiral when it comes to cough medications in this country. It wasn’t that long ago when one could walk into any drugstore in America and buy a bottle of codeine cough syrup over the counter, which is still considered the most effective remedy for a cold. Because of drug addicts all that has passed.
Keep in mind that it's not the druggies that make stupid laws that ineffectively control druggies and inconvenience everyone else.
Why should you have to pay $100 for a doctor visit to get $6 worth of cold medicine all because of a bunch of meth heads?”
Good question.
Probably one of the worst things GW Bush did was restrict sales of Sudafed and Sudafed type products.
The PE crap they sell now is nothing more than quackery....and....the only thing Bush did to allieviate Meth use was to take meth labs out of Middle America and ship them to Mexico....whose Meth-Makers use supehdrine shipped in from Communist China
Supposedly Missouri is the Meth-Making capital of the US
It’s your choice. To me it would be worth it. But, that’s just me.
Our state is good for a year.
I hate breaking in a new doctor...Don’t know what I’ll do if mine quits or passes on....In my lifetime I have fired a couple of them...
I feel your pain, literally.
I also hope they don't outlaw Afrin or its generic form. I live and breath easier with that stuff. I call it my nose candy.
The pharmacy gave me one of those twist and squeeze bottles by mistake last night, they will change it for me today.
I can get the lid off myself but the point is, the youngest child in my house is almost 11 now and he knows not to mess with drugs. Why should I have to struggle with a damn'd lid.
Okay, that’s a valid question. Lots of us have guns. However, most of us don’t have a badge.
It’s important to remember that we are citizens in a republic, not serfs in a dictatorship. If the police aren’t doing their jobs (or more typically, if the legislators and the prosecutors and the judges are not backing up the police who want to do their jobs), it’s **OUR** fault.
Taking the law into our own hands means voting for people who will enforce the laws. It definitely does **NOT** mean trying to do law enforcement without a badge.
Being conservative means honoring duly constituted authority, and in America, that means respecting and following the Constitution. Conservatives can’t act like liberals when we don’t like what the government is doing (or in this case, not doing) and defy duly constituted authority.
I just think this is another case of the govt overreach. They treat everyone like a criminal, and soon we all will be. I blame the govt. We just disagree on this one I guess.
so very true, thank you for nudging me back on the path :)
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