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Originally posted by Nembrionic
I'm bound to say "only in America"
If guns we're outlawed there wouldn't BE any kids with guns robbing stores.
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Drugs are outlawed in this country, yet I'm sure I can go procure a fold of coke from a 12-year-old in my upper-middle class, white neighborhood. What's this "outlawed" shit have to do with keeping guns off the street and crime down.
What society has grown accustomed to is being afraid of the tools people use in the wrong way: drugs, guns, bombs, religion -- none of those things kill people, yet it is politicians, special interest groups and the media that makes society fear those things.
People kill people. People kill themselves. Just stop spending billions on useless "war on this", "war on that", and try and spend it fostering better families, inner cities, education and I'll guarantee crime, gun use and drug use will go down.
Fuck it -- I'd bet that after a few generations in a society that has everything legal (drugs, guns, prostitution, etc), and the money is spent wisely from the regulation and taxation of that (cuz, well, the government likes to tax and control shit), it'd be a pretty nice place to live. That'll never happen though, because people who are afraid of inanimate, harmless objects deemed dangerous, are easier to control than happy people who can live around objects that may be dangerous if used improperly.