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I've heard gun advocates argue against banning guns because people who want to get them, including criminals, will get them anyways. Well can't you make the same argument for drugs?
I can just as easily get any type of drug as I can get a gun. So why is it that some supporters of gun rights who use this particular argument oppose legalization of drugs?
Now I'm not talking about other arguments for gun rights, I'm talking about this particular argument.
There is not a constitutional amendment to use drugs. However, if people want to use them, that is thier own business. Just don't make me pay for the medical bills that arise from that habit.
I don't even think the conservatives responding realize the question was meant to expose their hypocrisy.
Or yours.
You people that say we can't have laws against drugs because that just encourages the black market sales of them, would have to admit that it would be the same for guns.
As far as the Second Amendment, that is the best reason but only if someone actually believes in the Constitution and liberals don't believe in it.
I've heard gun advocates argue against banning guns because people who want to get them, including criminals, will get them anyways. Well can't you make the same argument for drugs?
I can just as easily get any type of drug as I can get a gun. So why is it that some supporters of gun rights who use this particular argument oppose legalization of drugs?
Now I'm not talking about other arguments for gun rights, I'm talking about this particular argument.
I get the point that you are trying to make except for one glaring difference. The Constitution does not give the right to get high.
Since I believe in the SCOTUS decision concerning the 2nd amendment that guns are an individual right subject to reasonable restrictions, then I must defer to the same logic for drugs. Banning guns in certain areas has not reduced gun crime and we all know that banning drugs has not reduced their usage. Both should be legal but subject to reasonable restrictions. Determining what constitutes reasonable restrictions is the fly in the ointment, though.
It's just incredible the logic sometimes.
So, since the Constitution actually says that owning guns is a protected act and the courts have enforced that, we then must apply this to whatever else we want protected even though there is no basis for it?
I say this as one who does not have a problem with making pot legal but the arguments for it sometimes make me reconsider.
Anybody who doesn't realize we've lost the war on drugs has spent the last 25 years in a closet.
Correct. And yet we plod along with this war that wastes thousands of lives and billions of dollars every year. Maybe when our war gets as bad as Mexico's war on drugs people will wake up.
I've heard gun advocates argue against banning guns because people who want to get them, including criminals, will get them anyways. Well can't you make the same argument for drugs?
I can just as easily get any type of drug as I can get a gun. So why is it that some supporters of gun rights who use this particular argument oppose legalization of drugs?
Now I'm not talking about other arguments for gun rights, I'm talking about this particular argument.
I'm at a loss for words here, you have truly outdone yourself when it comes to turning issues on their heads, twisting and contorting beyond recognition, just so you can form another moronic argument.
The constitution also does not give the government power to tell me what I can eat, drink or smoke.
Does the constitution ban rape, murder, incest, kidnapping, insanity, suicide bombings, stoning, decapitations?
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