It was lost because it was dependent upon trying to change human behavior.
Well, we never have won the “War on murder” or the “War against burglary” or the “War on Rape” — however no one is talking about legalizing them ... LOL ...
Precisely.
Human nature doesn't change, only the trimmings and trappings.
If we had made consuming beverages in public (outside, under 21) after 10 illegal, then we could round up kids in the park with a bottle of orange crush instead of needles in their arm. (The more permissive a society, the more extreme an adolescent has to be to rebel against the status quo, and they almost always will rebel--it's part of establishing themselves as unique.).
I can't approve of unlimited drug use (legalization), mainly because of the swath of destruction it has cut through people I have known over the years, including some family.
Neither can I approve of going after penny-ante criminals with military style assaults. Blowing the meat off a toddler's ribs was NOT justifiable collateral damage. LEOs, at least some of them, need to tone down the rhetoric, get off the Ft. Apache attitude, take a deep breath, and realize they live among us.
Maybe when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail, but you don't use a BFH as a tack hammer, either. Time for some common sense.
Yea, something only Christ can do.
Sad that some Freepers insist that the government is needed to do His job.