11-08-2012, 06:30 AM
(11-08-2012, 05:31 AM)Taem Wrote: EDIT: In retrospect, forget this drug/gun analogy argument. It was a bad comparison anyhow. I don't know why, but all day I can't even look at the computer monitor without squinting, I keep seeing a blur when I look at a computer monitor, and it's giving me a headache bad! I can't even think straight from this headache, and I don't understand it because I don't recall this ever happening before. I can focus on anything IRL, but not on the freakin computer screen without it getting fuzzy. I should just go to bed.
The issue with drugs is that them being legal or illegal and how much they are used are not really connected. The fact that cocaine is illegal in the US is causing more victims in and outside the US than it being legal could ever do...and cocaine can be used safely your whole life if you have the cash.....just like alcohol or cigarettes.
Although regarding weapons I agree with kandrathe when he asked where to draw the line.....and that it might not make sense to draw a line. On the other is it clear that wherever guns are legal you will get more victims (guilty and innocent ones). Of course this debate is heavily tainted by lobbying groups from the weapons industry. And knowing people, it is not difficult to make an entire population believe something bad is good for them.