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Politics : Evolution
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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (10752)12/8/2010 9:01:09 PM
From: Solon  Read Replies (1) of 69300
 
I agree. I think that making drugs challenging (and illegal) to obtain merely helps to push experimenters into a subculture which can encourage contempt for cultural mores and behaviors, whereas if it were legal to buy and try, and if schools informed from an early age (as they ought to be doing in re healthy eating and such, as well), then I am not sure what kids would do to rebel--but they wouldn't be meeting clandestinely with Hells Angels. :-)

We've had a big kerfuffle in Canada the last few years over gun registration with the (previous) Liberal Government and supporters pressing for it (used not as a pejorative but as informational). They seem to think that if a gun is registered it will not be used to commit a crime! However, the overwhelming evidence is that most serious crimes are crimes of passion/ignorance--very often a man murdering his special other. Registration does not stop these crimes of defective passion. And you can bet the farm that the real anti-social criminal who plans crimes to commit--does not register his bloody guns!

Are you sure you don't support using guns to shoot mothers who refuse to have an abortion??

Seriously, I know it is no fun being misunderstood...but it is especially galling when you know it is willful and intentional...
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