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TO END GUN VIOLENCE, ABANDON THE WAR ON DRUGS
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Posted on 10/22/2017 10:11:49 AM PDT by JP1201

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To: JP1201
My son's house just got shot up 2 months ago by drug dealers who thought he was a competitive drug dealer!

We need to escalate the war on drugs.

41 posted on 10/22/2017 11:15:12 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Goblins, Orcs and the Undead: Metaphors for the godless left.)
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To: JP1201

Not to mention that asset forfeiture would virtually go away over night and the reasoning behind the thousands of intrusive laws that exists would be gone.


42 posted on 10/22/2017 11:23:53 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: generally

To end alcohol abuse, let’s institute Prohibition. That worked really well, didn’t it?


43 posted on 10/22/2017 11:24:58 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: usurper
There would literally be bodies in the streets. We would have to start digging mas graves just to control the stench.

For a couple of years.

After that, I think we'd have a better country in almost every way.

44 posted on 10/22/2017 11:26:33 AM PDT by Eric Pode of Croydon (I'm an unreconstructed Free Trader and I do not give a damn.)
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To: ealgeone
Or perhaps fight the War on Drugs like it’s an actual war.

Two things needed to do that:

First, amend the Constitution so that fighting drugs actually becomes part of the fedgov's job description.

Second, give the fedgov the surveillance and police powers it would take to actually win that war. Powers that would make Beria or Himmler weep with envy.

Count me out.

45 posted on 10/22/2017 11:29:49 AM PDT by Eric Pode of Croydon (I'm an unreconstructed Free Trader and I do not give a damn.)
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To: SaveFerris

I’d laugh, but with the Left, you never know.


46 posted on 10/22/2017 11:31:12 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (John McBane is the turd in the national punch-bowl.)
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To: JP1201

No, idiots

How bout SECURING ALL OUR BORDERS . .

Keep the riff raff out
The drugs out
The gun running out
The illegals out
The Birthright Babies out


47 posted on 10/22/2017 11:37:32 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("I am SpartaLee" Hey, NFL, why didn't you any of you bold guys hire Kaepernick? #GoodbyeGoodell)
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To: JP1201

I often think about things like this:
The people who deal drugs right now, are generally degenerates. If drugs are made legal, where will the degenerates go, what will they do? They will not suddenly become decent citizens because drugs are legal. They will delve into other degenerate things. Sure, they may not be drug criminals, but these people are not good productive citizens. The crime will continue, won’t it?


48 posted on 10/22/2017 11:41:44 AM PDT by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

[ The gun running out ]

Oh yeah, I was gonna mention from the inside but Eric Holder and Barack Hussein Obama are out of office .... /ObamaAdministrationCrimes

There’s a hashtag.


49 posted on 10/22/2017 11:51:03 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: JP1201

Just more leftist tripe.


50 posted on 10/22/2017 11:54:27 AM PDT by Strac6 ("Mrs. Strac, Pilatus, and Sig Sauer: All the fun things in my life are Swiss!")
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To: JP1201

Bull$hit.
That wouldn’t end violence perpetrated with the use of a gun. “What a$$holes call ‘gun violence’”.

There is absolutely nothing in experience to show that the country would force drug users to take responsibility for their actions. On the contrary, everything shows that the country would give drug users money (welfare, free medical care) paid for by the people who have never taken drugs and never will.

Drug use would not be called a crime, or self-inflicted harm. It would be called a “disease,” meaning that the person is not responsible.

You take drugs, you can’t work, you get no money from those who work. You die from your habit, you get no sympathy from those who go out to f*cking work!


51 posted on 10/22/2017 11:55:53 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: JP1201

Ban Guns of Democrats.

Democrats massacred and shot 500 Republicans.

Never forget the Vegas massacre.


52 posted on 10/22/2017 12:03:27 PM PDT by TheNext (FBI FAKE STORY: Lone Shooter, But Died)
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To: Eric Pode of Croydon
First, amend the Constitution so that fighting drugs actually becomes part of the fedgov's job description.

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence [spelling in original], promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

53 posted on 10/22/2017 12:14:38 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: SaveFerris

Yahoo censors. Browsing a censored source is foolish.


54 posted on 10/22/2017 12:15:52 PM PDT by TheNext (FBI FAKE STORY: Lone Shooter, But Died)
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To: TheNext

Yes they do. Actually a lot of it is just the lib readers, too.

You can report abuse on anything and it just disappears a lot of times. Some of them have admitted doing it. So it’s not always just them.

Besides, sometimes it’s fun to throw a little truth in there. Of course the libs freak out. Though most of their garbage goes mostly lib, there are a few threads where folks are telling Hillary to shut up and go away.

Some of those are actually fun to read a few comments.


55 posted on 10/22/2017 12:20:39 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

Ah okay. So you are spying on the enemy, then you return to bring that intell back to the allies.

Well, you are a brave soul to venture behind enemy lines. LOL. Give this soldier an extra ration!


56 posted on 10/22/2017 12:34:51 PM PDT by TheNext (FBI FAKE STORY: Lone Shooter, But Died)
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To: ealgeone
If you take that position, then anything becomes the proper role of the federal government. Anything at all.

Fortunately, we have this part too:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

57 posted on 10/22/2017 12:44:05 PM PDT by Eric Pode of Croydon (I'm an unreconstructed Free Trader and I do not give a damn.)
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To: TheNext

LOL well my email is there - I guess my only option is to forward it elsewhere. Some history I want to save; kinda.

Normally, I just prefer to skip trolls, people who are Hell-bent on disagreements, etc. But you can throw a comment out there. I give it maybe 10 minutes a day sometimes. Once in a rare mood, I’ll keep posting at bit just to push back. There are others who stand up for decency and truth; they could use some support.

There are small gains. 10-12 months ago, you’d hardly find anything but glowing praise for Hillary.

Now, you can regularly find folks slamming Hillary for Excuse 8,756 and even Maxine Waters.

Yeah, I have a lot of comments disappear. Tom Hanks went all kook - I slammed him - boy that wasn’t popular, LOL.

When some says Barack is like the Antichrist, BION, more thumbs up than thumbs down, a lot of times.

Surprisingly, even Scripture goes over well.

Many times, but not all. I delivered the message - they can accept or reject but not say they never heard.

Still, I don’t venture to HuffPo nor DU - went to DU for 10 minutes like 10 years ago. HuffPo’s garbage is always at Yahoo so you can see what they’re up to anyways.

I’d say a few threads the conservative voices win — most people are sick of the Kardashian trash, too.

On North Korea, the liberals side with North Korea. I remind a few of them they’ve made that choice. Boy, that isn’t popular, either.


58 posted on 10/22/2017 12:47:06 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: generally

This argument is correct. There is a boat load of black market money in drugs. If drugs were made legal and taxed the cartel is broken and has to find a new trade. Look at prohibition and the same violence surrounding it


59 posted on 10/22/2017 12:48:20 PM PDT by rebel25 (Tagline unavailable due to technical problems. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: usurper

That would be on themselves it’s not the governments job to protect me from myself


60 posted on 10/22/2017 12:53:15 PM PDT by rebel25 (Tagline unavailable due to technical problems. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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