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   JohnR wrote:   
   > "Peter Franks"  wrote in message   
   > news:i60qrn$flt$1@news.eternal-september.org...   
   >> The Lone Weasel wrote:   
   >>> Obama could help stop Mexico's bloodshed   
   >>>  BY ANDRES OPPENHEIMER   
   >>>   
   >>> MEXICO CITY -- Here's an interesting detail about the much-publicized   
   >>> recent arrest of Mexico's top drug baron Edgar Valdez Villarreal, better   
   >>> known as ``La Barbie'' -- he was caught with a U.S.-made M-16   
   >>> semiautomatic rifle and other sophisticated arms that Mexican officials   
   >>> suspect were smuggled from the United States.   
   >>>   
   >>> In Mexico, U.S. arms smuggling is a big issue. President Felipe Calderón   
   >>> said during a visit to Washington in May that of all the guns and assault   
   >>> rifles seized in Mexico over the past three years, ``more than 80 percent   
   >>> of those we have been able to trace came from the United States.''   
   >>>   
   >>> Mexico's drug cartels have become increasingly well-equipped armies   
   >>> thanks to a flood of semi-automatic U.S. weapons, which have been easier   
   >>> to get since the U.S. government allowed a 10-year ban on sales of   
   >>> assault weapons to expire in 2004, Mexican officials say.   
   >>> ...   
   >> Who actually wants to stop the bloodbath?  If the drug-runners are dying,   
   >> then I say "open season".   
   >>   
   >> A good drug runner is a dead drug runner.   
   >>   
   >> Instead of reinstating the ban, we should be handing out dangerous-looking   
   >> assault weapons to border state citizens with the charge to defend the   
   >> country from drug-running invaders.   
   >>   
   >> We aren't wards of the state -- if the government isn't doing its job,   
   >> then the citizens -- the TRUE lords of the country, will.   
   >>   
   >> Get it yet?   
   >>   
   > A good drug runner is a very wealthy drug runner thanks to the idiotic and   
   > illogical support for prohibition of some drugs. If you want to put the   
   > criminals out of business then take the trade off them, then little if any   
   > of this lawless drug related spiral of violence would occur in the first   
   > place.   
      
   I have no problem decriminalizing drugs, however a couple of things need   
   to be addressed:   
      
   1) How do you protect the children from exposure to drugs (or any   
   controlled substance for that matter)?  My suggestion is to increase the   
   penalties for supplying controlled substances to minors, including alcohol.   
      
   2) If someone choose to voluntarily take an intoxicating drug, then they   
   are immediately and effectively responsible for all of their actions, no   
   matter how impaired.  Any negative impact to others (read: accident)   
   shall be treated as (attempted) first-degree murder and dealt with   
   appropriately, including the death penalty.   
      
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