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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kevin Rose who wrote (133190)	3/23/2001 6:04:05 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Removing access to guns will make other efforts to protect against crime less effective? Removing access to guns isn't going to happen. Removing guns from the hands of basically law abiding citizens will make efforts to protect against crime by those citizens less effective. How come almost every major police and sheriff organization disagrees with that statement? 1 - It is not true that almost every major police or sheriff organization disagrees with that statement or supports gun control. 2 - Most cops do not support gun control. They know it will be awile before they arrive. They investigate and catch criminals a lot more then they provide direct defense against crime. They can't be everywhere and they know it (the criminals do too). Removing access to drugs (of course, I mean illegal drugs) is a tough problem, I admit. But we can't give up, as it is having a dire impact on our youth. I'm against drug prohibition for two reasons. 1 - Even though I don't take illegal narcotics and have no desire to do so, I don't think the government has any business telling me that I can't. If I smoked pot it wouldn't hurt anyone but me. Its not the proper role of the government to protect adults from themselves at least not those who are not insane. 2 - The prohibition is not effective, it increases crime, and costs a lot of money. Since it is outlawed the money goes to criminal orginzations who kill each other over it and also hit innocent bystanders from time to time. It also gives money to fund other criminal activities. In addition to that our prisions are so crowded with drug offenders that it is more difficult to keep non-drug offenders locked up. Also even if you think that taking drugs is not a liberty we should have, the attempt to fight the drug war causes the government to infringe against other rights. Tim