“You’re right. Let’s give up. Let China and Mexico bring all of the Fentanyl they want into the USA”
No, we shouldn’t give up.
But we shouldn’t expect results through enforcement either.
A pound of Fentanyl is enough to kill 10,000 and enough to hook 100,000. How many ways are there to sneak in just one pound?
The key is to reduce demand. Through both education and penalty. Zero tolerance.
“education”
burial on junior high school grounds
Here lies Patty. She failed her final drug education exam.
Everyone knows it's bad. They just don't care.
Nowhere in the Constitution does it say the feds have to babysit stupidity. 120 years ago, addicts were dumped in pauper's graves, and no one cared. Has being Woke improved things?
You want to stop it? Put a sandbagged bullet stopping wall up, out in the parking lot of every county court house, and use it, Saturday afternoons, for the instruction of adults and the amusement of the kiddies, until you run out of dealers. Lock anyone who gets a hot piss test in a 6x6x6 concrete box for 30 days. (Try to remember to feed them.)
My brother died a user. He's under a stone in the Florida National Cemetery, Bushnell, in a pauper's grave. All out of empathy.