My view is if you don't have a gun you can't use it. The USA have got it incredibly wrong, which is why there's so much gun crime. Those 20 dead kids and 7 dead staff members at the school in Newtown wouldn't be dead if the bloke who killed them simply couldn't get hold of a firearm.
My view is that if you don't have a knife, you can't use it. The UK have got it incredibly wrong, which is why there's so much knife crime. Those hundreds of inner city stab victims wouldn't be dead if the bloke who killed them simply couldn't get hold of a knife. **** people who want to use them for self-defence, or to cut up their dinner with.
The unfortunate reality is that alcohol will never be made illegal because of the amount of money in it and the size of the business in general, when maybe perhaps it should be. The same goes for cigarettes. If cannabis was to be made legal, it would be very difficult to make it illegal again because there'd be a lot of money in it and businesses would live and die on it's legality.
How is that unfortunate? People take calculated risks in their lives all the time - it's not human life in a real sense at all if you are restricted from being able to make the choices you want to, and that includes addling your brain with toxins via caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, and yes, even cannabis and heroin if people want to.
You can NEVER stop people getting hold of these things. The plants and distilleries will never go away. The springs and metals needed for home-made gun production will never go away. It's only when people are suppressed that these things are a problem - if everyone knew it was out in the open, there would quite simply be far less crime, including the casualties inflicted by government raids on entrepreneurial drug and gun vendors.
Cannabis can exacerbate depression as I found out to my own detriment and I feel it has had a long term effect in that it has strengthened a lot of feelings that I wish to let go of and move on. Of course, alcohol can also exacerbate depression, which is why I have stopped drinking entirely. Cigarettes can too, as they reduce testosterone levels and low testosterone in men can cause depression, but I don't smoke.
Excess eating, excess sugar, excess caffeine, excess ANYTHING can do the same. But I ask you: should people never be allowed to make mistakes in their life? For every person depressed by cannabis use, there are ninety nine recreational users who enjoy it. To say that government should decide what people do with their own bodies is to say that government is the rightful owner of people's bodies. That people are slaves. Is that your understanding?
In all honesty I think all these substances should be made illegal. Alcohol is the hardest one as in small amounts it can be a great source of joy for many, especially those who drink in moderation for the flavour of the large variety of beautiful drinks available. Unfortunately, I can't see why the lives of its victims are less important than the enjoyment of a view "connoisseurs".
The lives of its victims are important, that's why they should take responsibility for themselves and not drink excessively. I've learnt that the hard way just like every other regular drinker, and it enrichened my life.
Why should children and countless other innocent people have to die to protect the rights of a few gun enthusiasts to own a gun for shooting squirrels or cans or other inanimate objects?
They shouldn't, because in a world where everyone can bear arms, a shooting spree idiot would hit the dust within seconds rather than being able to shoot tens of unarmed, vulnerable, unprotected people. It is a tragedy, and one caused by government. Moreover, why should countless innocent people who could have jobs in the gun trade have to be physically repressed by government agents in order to protect the insecurities of socialist bullies? Each to their own, that's my view.
Finally, guns aren't truly illegal, because access to them is very widespread in army and elite police units. In other words, instead of them being decentralized and spread around the population who would use them for noble reasons of protecting themselves from crime and tyranny, they are centralized and concentrated in the hands of an unelected and illegitimate select few. These few use them to butcher women and children in illegal foreign wars, and to raid innocent people who refuse to be kowtowed by invalid laws on drugs, taxation and production of other 'illegal material', and they are allowed exclusive access to the top training facilities where they learn to be government killing machines, while the people are powerless as ever to resist this affront to their freedom.
The people should side with the people. Always.
