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Originally Posted by mgtarheels
Is it their business when the become so addicted, they're unable to afford any of their bills, lose their house and end up homeless?
Is it their business when they do nothing but panhandle every person they see, often times threatening them physically for money?
Is it their business when they apply for welfare or unemployment because they cannot keep their job and cannot pay their bills?
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Let me answer those three scenarios:
1. No
2. Panhandling and threatening people is something that makes sense to arrest them for. Arresting them ahead of time "preemptively" is total and completely the govt. overreaching.
3. You are making another assumption. Some people ARE going to be failures no matter what. Whether they do it on alcohol or gambling or sex or drugs...the result is going to be the same no matter what you do.
So I would say "NO" and double damn NO because there shouldn't BE any welfare to begin with.
I don't like giving the govt. control over people. I don't feel one tiny bit "safer" in 2010 with a bajillion new drug laws every fucking day, than I did in the 1970's, 1980's, or 1990's. And I definitely don't feel "safer" (whatever the fuck that means) now that I can't send my kids into the drug store to buy some goddamn nyquil.
And SURPRISE! Drug use is UP. Not down.
The next "law" that should be passed is one that makes busybody lifetime politicians who don't really give a damn about you and me but pass laws to control us...ILLEGAL