i just want to self

i just want to self rate this web site as crude, pornographic, obscene, and having no social value at all, so if there are any little puritan fuckheads out there, you should stop reading now.

why is it that liberals have become psychotic when it comes to things like gun control? they are just as narrow minded as the conservatives, believing anything they are told regardless of the facts. realising the danger of sounding like a nra ad, i must tell you that having guns in the house is not a danger. the 40+ times you're are more likely to be injured in your own house rather than an intruder included suicides, and neglected all cases where the intruder was not killed(a vast majority). the second amendment states "A well-regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State,the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed." it does not say "in the absence of a well organized militia" as many anti-gun people state, insinuating that because we have a military that we no longer have the right to have guns. in actual fact, the supreme court has many times ruled that the armed forces, including the national guard, are not the militia referred to in the constitution. gun control has not made us safer. point in fact, many states which have adopted strict gun control have had an increase in gun violence since the enactment. england which has some of the strictest gun control in europe, still has a much higher violent crime rate than switzerland, which has about the least strict gun laws. in switzerland, everyone is required to own military weapons which the united states has banned on the premise that it helps stop crime. now ask yourself, how many crimes are committed using m16s? less than 1%, but we still banned them to stop crime. that makes about as much sense as the war on drugs where we claim that drugs cause crime, when actually their illegality causes crimes by creating the need to smuggle, and artificially inflating the price. how much stealing would go on if cocaine was priced in the same range as beer? how much crime is related to alcohol now compared to when it was banned during prohibition? anheiser busch isn't gunning down coors in the streets of chicago are they? legalize drugs and you take away the crime associated with smuggling it, distributing it, at the same time as you eliminate the need to steel to support your habit, since it is now cheap. you also can regulate the quality of it, making overdoses more infrequent. you also eliminate the substitue drug business(taking cocaine+lsd or dmx when you thought you were taking mdma). if we would all just think our policies through, this country would be a much better place to live. we need to quit seeing the symptoms as the cause, and quit looking for a quick fix to everything. drugs are not the problem, and guns are not the problem. people are the problem, and when we ban the symptoms, we don't fix anything, in fact, we can make it worse by making people feel like the government is overstepping its bounds, which it is. sorry about the rambling nature of this, but i'm kind of tired, and thinking while i type, which is never a good combination.

Posted by dshepard at April 16, 2002 12:00 AM