To: Rebelbase
Marijuana-related arrests, which make up 50% of all drug-related crimes, have plummeted in Colorado,... So, because a former arrestable crime is no longer an arrestable crime is supposed to surprise anyone?
Why don't we legalize burglary to make the crime rates plummet even more?
8 posted on
07/02/2014 11:31:56 AM PDT by
fwdude
(The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
To: fwdude
Better yet, legalize crime.
Problem solved.
13 posted on
07/02/2014 11:34:05 AM PDT by
Fresh Wind
(The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
To: fwdude
Marijuana-related arrests, which make up 50% of all drug-related crimes, have plummeted in Colorado,...So, because a former arrestable crime is no longer an arrestable crime is supposed to surprise anyone?
Why don't we legalize burglary to make the crime rates plummet even more?
Read all the way to the end of the sentence: "... freeing up law enforcement to focus on other criminal activity."
17 posted on
07/02/2014 11:35:10 AM PDT by
ConservingFreedom
(A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
To: fwdude
You took the quote out of context. The cops supposedly have more time to pursue other crimes being committed.
Supposedly is the operative word. I’d be curious to see if cops are spending more time at the donut shop.
To: fwdude
If one has a habit involving pot or alcohol and not enough income they will be resorting to some sort of stealing.
Stealing to get money for pot or booze or stealing to get the things they can’t afford like medicine or clothes for their kids because they spent it all on the pot or booze.
That’s how the real world operates regardless of whether pot or booze is legal or not legal.
54 posted on
07/02/2014 11:49:44 AM PDT by
Nextrush
(OBAMACARE IS A BAILOUT FOR THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY)
To: fwdude
Murder’s down 52.9%, too.
To: fwdude
Why don't we legalize burglary to make the crime rates plummet even more?
False analogy. Some guy getting high in his living room (or even in the park) doesn't deprive anyone else of life, liberty or property. In fact, making pot illegal with such high demand for it creates a perfect breeding ground for a violence-enforced black market. And that would be true if, say, X-boxes were made illegal. You'd have X-Box dealers shooting each other on the streets for territory to sell to the lucrative market.
To: fwdude
da ya go
Just make everything legal, and the crime rate will drop to zero, we won’t even need prisons and jails — big savings there.
To: fwdude
Why don't we legalize burglary to make the crime rates plummet even more? Because unlike smoking pot, burglaries hurt someone else.
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