““I am not for any of the things you mentioned, however I understand the rationale for the no-knock warrant. Warrants involve judges and probable cause.””
“Which are as fallible as any other human endeavor. There is no justification for even one incident like this...and there have been several. Even worse is the tangible lack of effect the “War on Drugs” has had despite all the expense and effort.”
All human endeavors are fallible, so should we end them? Mistakes happen and I think this was a mistake, not a premeditated mission to terrorize, tyranize or intimidate.
“Return all of the drugs to legal status, as they had before the ‘20s or so. No more drug dealers at that point, ‘cause there are no more profits at that point. Losing the taboo appeal will result in fewer users, not more. Maybe we can even talk parents into effectively educating their children about drugs, reducing demand even further.”
So drugs will be legal but there will be no one to sell them? That makes sense. No profit? A country full of addicted people will increase demand and the market will be huge. Someone will exploit it. The notion that fewer people will try drugs once they are legal is laughable, as is the notion of parents educating their kids. Talk about 40 years of failure.
Think about "Heroin" commercials aimed at teens.
“All human endeavors are fallible, so should we end them?”
We should certainly end those that have fatal consequences, while not accomplishing anything useful!
“Mistakes happen and I think this was a mistake, not a premeditated mission to terrorize, tyranize or intimidate.”
You excuse a war hero being killed like a dog while trying to defend his own home and family from unidentified assailants with “Mistakes happen”???
This was unacceptable on any level! Such things simply shouldn’t happen in the United States of America!
“So drugs will be legal but there will be no one to sell them?”
Some would be sold in “drugstores”. You may have heard of those...
Others, like marijuana, are easy to grow, eliminating the profit motive most directly.
“That makes sense. No profit? A country full of addicted people will increase demand and the market will be huge.”
You should look into the cost of pharmaceutical cocaine, or morphine. It’s far less than the illegal variety. As to a “country full of addicted people”, that’s what we have NOW after forty years of very expensive “enforcement”.
“The notion that fewer people will try drugs once they are legal is laughable,”
...except that it’s been the case everywhere legalization has been tried...
“as is the notion of parents educating their kids.”
Wow...you are disconnected from reality.
“Talk about 40 years of failure.”
I did. At any rate, I see you’ve not addressed some of my other important points such as alcohol and tobacco. So, when you have your shot of whiskey tonight, reflect on the fact that you’re taking a drug that’s responsible for thousands of deaths a year here in the US - far more than any sane person attributes to marijuana for instance.