DO GUN AND DRUG LAWS HELP?

When manufacturers stopped making machine guns for private citizen use, there have been no deaths written about by machine guns.  If the manufacturers of AKs can be limited to selling them only to the American Armed Services we may see fewer massacres by them.  There is no way people will stop killing others since the Bible even directs certain behaviors punishable by death.  The unfortunate part was the world was small then and lived by regional law    We can no longer do that since Moslems will go anywhere in the world to kill anyone who has insulted their God in their view.

Researchers find data, though limited, that supports that gun control lessens the number of deaths.  Read the article in the Christian Science Monitor.  Click here.  However, we can count on the NRA to ignore any findings.  The leaders seem to want the money from manufacturers more than protecting lives of innocent.

Most of the arguments in favor either banning some guns or lifting bans on drugs are 'slippery slope' arguments and are not accurate predictors of what might actually happen.  There are too many 'chicken little's' in our society.  As we learn more about marijuana use, we have less to go on about research demonstrating ill effects in moderate use.  The UN believes we are violating a treaty.  Perhaps the treaty should be rethought as it was made so many year ago.  We listened to the arguments about the evil of alcohol abuse.  People were correct  Many people do abuse it  They also illegally continued the manufacture and sale of it, making criminals wealthy, and solving no problem as it was readily available to those who abused it.  It also kept the country from tax revenue.  The country learned nothing from the of prohibition of alcohol era.

For those who seek to explain all behaviors in terms of good and evil, it is too narro a gauge for a reasonable result in addressing all the major factors.  I have never smoked cigarettes or marijuana but also have never made the assumption that what is good enough for me should be the rule for all!  For the argument by the UN against making marijuana legal, click here.

The government loses tax revenue and spends far more in attempt to control the uncontrollable.