How do you feel about X in your country?

[DonFerrari]

Nymeria said:

DonFerrari said:

1 - I certainly believe that you pay more. It may be from weaker bargain position or from government regulation, taxes, excess of demand, warranted demand, protection for doctors who can request excessive wages, insurance for bad practice due to crazy sues, etc.

But as I said. If one could opt out to not pay taxes that cover the public health if he so decides that would already make me a happy kupo.

2 - You are not picking the point. I'm not talking about the health problems due to drugs. I'm saying that if USA can't prevent cannabis, heroine, cocaine and the other dozen of illegal drugs to enter the country or to be produced locally how do you think it would be able to control guns entering or being sold illegally?

The question is if something being legal or illegal is if it makes a society better.  Cocaine was legal, and it caused real problems so we decided even if people used it illegally it was better to fight it than accept it.  This was tried was alcohol and failed miserably.  It has been an ongoing issue with cannabis and I think it being illegal has done more harm than good.

With guns the question is if buying an AR-15 is illegal or not makes the society better.  We see these shootings and people suggest either to leave them legal, make them illegal, or make acquiring them harder.  Would people still get a hold of them even if they were illegal? Yes, but by that line of thinking laws are useless so why do we bother with coercion tactics at all?  It's that the ill those illegal guns would cause would be less than the current situation.  Australia still has issues, but since it became illegal to get something like an AR-15 mass shootings have dropped.  If they felt the cost was too great or didn't work why haven't they proposed going back to laws they had before?

1) That wasn't my question. My question was in the capacity to making it illegal keep it far from hand. For me all drugs should be legal, but if anyone harm another due to the use of drugs the penalties should be severe, and of course fight on education to prevent people from getting to it, but that is beside the point.

2) Brazil guns are illegal, still we have drug dealers with rocket launchers kkk... but going back to USA, the point is that different than from Australia you wouldn't be able to really prevent people from buying it, so it would not only make the black market bigger, but the population would have less means of defense and criminals more eager to commit crimes using those guns. But sure again for me, guns should be legal and no one would really have to own one besides for sport on shooting range.