Nymeria said:
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. |
I go back to Brazil because USA is a continental size country with 300M population (akin to Brazil), while Japan is completely different. And both are failing at doing drug control.
Sure someone should pick its battle, but when USA is unable to fight against any and all illegal drugs and people abuse even on legal ones, why do you think they would be totally capable of controlling guns if they were made illegal? Because I'm not a gun lover, so if no one would be able to have a gun I would have no issue... but as long as there is a good probability that a criminal is capable of getting a gun I'm not all right with any government saying I can't have one.
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