| DonFerrari said:
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. |
I think you pick your battles. We incarcerate tens of thousands of people due to cannabis. It's a minor drug that causes few issues if used. Compared to meth which is incredibly and deadly. If we shifted our focus I think we'd be more effective as wouldn't be distracted. Combating it wouldn't be done through punishment either, these people can be a far greater value to society if they can recover from addiction. Portugal had success in providing lower potent heroine to aid people in removing their dependence on the drug.
You keep going back to Brasil which always leaves us at a gap. I don't see why it is a better example than Japan which has dramatically lower gun ownership and crime than the US. These issues are multi faceted problems within societies. Majority of low level crime comes from wealth inequality and lack of prospects.
