Posted on 06/03/2014 4:31:07 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Edited on 06/03/2014 4:58:31 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
A gunman fired into a crowd at a South Shore strip mall Monday night, striking two teenagers and four adults, according to police....
For Tamesha Ginn, a lifelong South Shore resident who heard the gunfire from her porch, the shooting reflected changes her neighborhood has gone through in the years since her childhood.
(Excerpt) Read more at my.chicagotribune.com ...
Darn that Tea Party. Darn them to Heck.
Blaming drug-trade violence on drugs not being legal is no more stupid than blaming on Prohibition the alcohol-trade violence that ended when Prohibition did.
a government bent on tyranny
Asserting dominance over adults' bloodstreams sounds tyrannical to me.
I guess you live for the day when cocaine and heroin are sold in kindergarten cafeteria’s.
I guess you live for the day when cocaine and heroin are sold in kindergarten cafeteria’s.
The legal-for-adults drugs alcohol and tobacco are not sold there now - nor would I expect or support that for any legal-for-adults drugs.
Strike two.
for adults?
I doubt it. Libertopians want it to be okay for everyone and they will be dragging their kids with them to cocaine-fests and heroin fests just like they bring their kids to pot-fests in Colorado these days.
Libertopians don’t really believe there should be a prohibition on minors getting drugs or sexed up. They really don’t.
LOL - yep damn them to heck...
When the shoe fits though, it's time to wear them.
The violence that surrounds the area in question is almost completely the result of the war on drugs.
This violence is being used as a pretext for civilian disarmament.
Therefore the unconstitutional civilian disarmament is a direct effect of the war on drugs.
It's all pretty straightforward if you bother to think about it for more than two seconds, and don't have an agenda that supports the police sttate.
We saw all this happen in the 20s. Crime went up after prohibition was passed. When it was repealed crime dropped dramatically. The government didn't particularly care for that so they made sure they had something to take its place.
You think the ghetto is a bad place because of the “war on drugs”?
Okay, lets ban cops from those ‘hoods and see how everything becomes fine and dandy.
lolz
Brave New World
Okay, lets ban cops from those ‘hoods
No, let's stop them from making drug arrests anywhere by changing the drug laws. The ghetto would still be a bad place, but we'd have removed means and motive for much of the violence.
Exactly. Welfare and other soul-destroying policies would still make those places less than pleasant places to live, but much of the worst of what goes on would not be a part of the mix, or would at least be greatly reduced in scope. Drug laws a a tool for the destruction of the constitution. History makes that pretty clear.
Anyone who supports drug laws also supports the destruction of the constitution. The two go together hand in hand. It's not the only method being employed to undermine our republic, but its a big part of it.
not having hard drugs destroys the soul??
Hard drugs are destroying souls now - and the War On Drugs is having no demonstrable effect in reducing that, but is causing clear harms of its own.
Tyranny is fine as long as drugs are free and legal... right?
Brave New World
there is no good argument for legalizing drugs, none
The Constitution has been destroyed a million ways without any so-called “War on Drugs” and will continue to be long after Soma gets made mandatory
Tyranny is fine as long as drugs are free and legal... right?
That doesn't follow from anything I've posted, and for the record I don't agree.
Have anything to say about anything I have posted?
there is no good argument for legalizing drugs, none
He just gave you two.
The Constitution has been destroyed a million ways without any so-called “War on Drugs”
And real conservatives oppose all million-and-one of them. Do you?
I do not support legalizing drugs any more than I support legalizing incest and sex with children, both of which libertardians would see as tyranny too I guess.
When everything is about drugs, drugs, drugs to some people it becomes obvious
I went to numerous libertarian meetings over a ten year period. Never heard any one support sex with children. I guess you were at other meetings.
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