[thefactor]

How about the 1000's killed every year due to the drug trade? Are those crimes?

Now go ahead, tell me that if drugs were legalized, there would be no need for drug crime. I love when I hear that.

[Tublecane]

“How about the 1000’s killed every year due to the drug trade? Are those crimes?”

Yes. It’s called “murder”.

“Now go ahead, tell me that if drugs were legalized, there would be no need for drug crime.”

There would be no need for it, any more than there’s a need for crime over any other commodity. I hardly need to explain to you that drugs and crime are associated with one another for a very simple reason. Due to the threat of punishment, black markets attract people willing to risk punishment: i.e., criminals. It’s common sense. Take away the crime and you more or less take away the criminals.

[Phantom Lord]

Now go ahead, tell me that if drugs were legalized, there would be no need for drug crime. I love when I hear that.

See many Al Capones running shine and controling crime enterprises around it?

[elkfersupper]

Now go ahead, tell me that if drugs were legalized, there would be no need for drug crime. I love when I hear that.

No need for anyone to tell you that.

You said it yourself and you are correct.

[Mister Da]

When guns are criminalized, will you dutifully turn in all your guns & ammo? If it's the law, it's the law, right?

When meat is criminalized, will you become strictly vegan, or will you become a criminal for a steak? Meat is bad, you know. Bad to eat, cruel to animals, & bad for the environment. It must be so, for the Gov’t & lots of SCIENTISTS say so, right?

Perhaps ground “meat” will be a misdemeanor & whole cuts a felony! Will you illegally buy meat only for yourself, or will you buy some for your family & friends, & thereby become a dealer & child abuser? This surely warrants the death penalty, doesn't it? If you bring the illegal meat home, will your home be confiscated as a “meat house” where meat is illegally prepared & consumed? When a SWAT team invades your home, shoots your dog, & ransacks your property, looking for illegal food, will you proudly attribute it to “justice served”?

Just as meat eaters & gun owners are vilified by the likes of PETA & the Left, Drug users (except Rush, of course) are vilified by folks such as yourself. And for exactly the same reason: Because you disagree with how OTHER people conduct their PRIVATE lives & you are wiling to criminalize their behavior, but not your own behavior. The result has been a completely failed Drug War, a vast increase in the police state, & a Federal Gov’t that knows no bounds.

FYI, check out Genesis 1:29 in the Bible. What part of that is wrong, or subject to political interpretation?

[Dead Corpse]

Do Budweiser and Coors delivery men shoot each up on a daily basis in your neighborhood?