[Texaggie79]

I don't want to legalize murder and I don't want a JBT to kill my wife or my daughter at 3:am and respond, "we had to act quickly".

Then legalize murder, and don't worry about it. Obviously it would work with drugs. Why are you now contradicting?

[higgmeister]

Then legalize murder, and don't worry about it. Obviously it would work with drugs. Why are you now contradicting?

No contradiction.  I want a policeman in a plain blue
uniform to knock on the door in broad daylight of even
the most evil person in the country with the assumption
he is as pure as you seem to think you are.  Then I
want the policeman to identify himself in a clear voice
and give every citizen respect and assume that he is
innocent until the court finds him guilty.  I want no
3:00 AM raids with black ski masks and machine guns
that clearly are a tactic of a criminal government with
no regard for the safety or value of individual lives.

[TheOtherOne]

I don't want to legalize murder...

And you answer, "Then legalize murder..."

Now that you said it that way it is so clear. You are dumb as a stump.

[El Gato]

The difference between drugs and murder is that a large proportion of the population doesn't think that there is nothing wrong with murder. There is such a large fraction that thinks there is nothing wrong, in a moral sense, with taking recreational drugs. Prohibtion I did not work. Prohibition II isn't doing any better, and it's brought the same sorts of unintended consequences, worse in fact, than those that flowed from Prohibition I.