[tpaine]

Most Americans are moving to the idea that drugs and guns are evil and should be prohibited.

Encouraging one way of thinking supports the other because the logic of the arguments is the same.

Why not prohibit a dangerous evil? If every drinker is a potential alcoholic, every drug-user a future addict, and every gun-owner a potential killer, why not ban them all? There is no defense against this logic except to challenge the lies that sit at the root of the arguments.
Those are the lies promoted by the prevailing propaganda in support of all Prohibition.
We cannot oppose one and support the other. To do so undermines our efforts because all these movements walk on the same legs.

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The above is logical core of the article. ---
--- Prohibitional power has never been granted to any level of government, federal/state or local.

Governments are limited to legally 'reasonable' regulatory powers by the basic principles of our constitution.


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Logical core bump.

[Texaggie79]

WOW, blast from the past. Prohibitional power has never been granted to any level of government, federal/state or local. I can see the federal argument, as always, but you have yet to prove that STATES are prohibited from criminalizing material that they see as harmful enough to violate the rights of other citizens.

[Zon]

The above is logical core of the article. ---
--- Prohibitional power has never been granted to any level of government, federal/state or local.

Governments are limited to legally 'reasonable' regulatory powers by the basic principles of our constitution.

Agreed.

Check this: Gun prohibition would only apply to citizens. The premise: citizens can't be trusted with guns. Government would still have guns. Supposedly government agents can be trusted with guns. They're seemingly made of some morally superior fiber than citizens. What  Frederick Bastiat chimes in. My edits in  [ ].

"If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free [keep and bear arms], how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind? The organizers maintain that society, when left undirected, rushes headlong to its inevitable destruction because the instincts of the people are so perverse. The legislators claim to stop this suicidal course and to give it a saner direction. Apparently, then, the legislators and the organizers have received from Heaven an intelligence and virtue that place them beyond and above mankind.

"They would be the shepherds over us, their sheep. Certainly such an arrangement presupposes that they are naturally superior to the rest of us. And certainly we are fully justified in demanding from the legislators and organizers proof of this natural superiority." -- Frederick Bastiat, The Law (1850)