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U know, as much as I've been an opponent of legalizing drugs... I would say if you're going to legalize drugs, why not legalize guns under the same premise? Let idiots kill themselves with meth and coke, but let decent families protect themselves with guns and assault weapons.
Thanks for posting! We can only hope this will help stem some of the drug-related violence.. Now if the US would follow suit with *some* kind of similiar legislation, places like Juarez might have a chance. But they talked about the "silence" from Washington DC...
Curious to know, though, where would drug users acquire their drugs under this new legislation.
In this great sociological experiment called Earth, it's nice to read about 'revolutionary' measures being tested in some so-called backwards and conservative countries such as Mexico and Argentina. Maybe the US will get dragged from its narrow-minded complacency/apathy by these nothing-to-lose-let's-give-it-a-try second-world countries who don't suffer from the United States' self-righteous and over-inflated by-God nationalistic ego.
In this great sociological experiment called Earth, it's nice to read about 'revolutionary' measures being tested in some so-called backwards and conservative countries such as Mexico and Argentina. Maybe the US will get dragged from its narrow-minded complacency/apathy by these nothing-to-lose-let's-give-it-a-try second-world countries who don't suffer from the United States' self-righteous and over-inflated by-God nationalistic ego.
Has it occurred to you that perhaps it's the money to be made on illegal drugs in the US that is causing the violence in "the border towns of Mexico?"
No. I highly doubt that all the over 5,000 people killed in this violence were actually hauling drugs over the border to the USA. I'd have to see some real evidence they all had been smuggling drugs to the USA, not just all this speculation. I have a feeling many of those killed had rarely even been to the USA, much less smuggled drugs into it.
It's too simplistic to say that every one killed was just a drug trafficker bringing drugs only to the USA and that simply throwing open the border to them and letting them bring their drug shipments in legally and pushing their drugs openly throughout the USA is going to make them less competitive or violent.
Anyhow the over 400 young women murdered before this drug war were not murdered because they were all drug traffickers, most were maquila workers. No one cares about them because their deaths can't be exploited by the pro-drug crowd.
Im not suggesting the borders be opened. Im suggesting that if there were a legal US source of desired drugs available to US citizens, the demand would disappear for the drugs supplied from across the border.
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