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   From: bliss@mouse-potato.com   
      
   On 8/27/23 16:46, Harris Slut wrote:   
   > Community activist Del Seymour   
      
   	Often called the Mayor of the Tenderloin.   
   	A lot of the people passed out on the streets are alcohol users.   
   	Many of the people in the Tenderloin are the ones not visible except as   
   they move thru the crowd of incapacitated substance users.   
   	The reason that Fentanyl is so popular is because it is easier   
   to move into the nation being much more compact than heroin.   
   	So the Prohibition of Drugs, in particular opiates led from smoking   
   opium to shooting first morphine and then heroin to escape   
   the discomfort of real life.  Of course when it was passed in 1916   
   as the Harrison Narcotics Act it made junkies out of all those medically   
   addicted veterans of America's wars. Previously medically addicted   
   individuals has gotten treated at doctors' offices with a shot of morphine.   
   	So the Prohibition of Drugs led directly to the scene of of   
   wasted lives seen on the streets of every large city with roots deep   
   in the rural areas where work can be very hard and proper anti-drug   
   education as with sexual education is completely neglected.   
      
   	Before what we call "Modern times" every small town had laws   
   against carrying guns in public but about 50 or 60 years ago those   
   under the influence of the National Rifle Association of which I   
   was a life time member and its rich supporters who made and sold   
   firearms those laws intended for peace-keeping.  In the 1930s we   
   were smart enough to outlaw Thompson Sub-machine guns but presently   
   while those laws remain in force we are too dumb to outlaw "bump stocks"   
   and those weapons easily converted to auto-fire.   
      
   	When i was young and dumb I thought outlawing the Tommie guns   
   was bad but with recent history my young self stands against the   
   present along with me older and wiser but a gun owner and if the   
   occasion arises a gun user.  I hope that things never get bad enough   
   that I have to carry around town openly or concealed.   
      
   	I am an American born in 1937 and living in San Francisco for   
   the healthful climate since 1967.   
      
   	bobbie sellers - a retired nurse in San Francisco   
      
         "It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.   
         It is by the beans of cocoa that the thoughts acquire speed,   
         the thighs acquire girth, the girth become a warning.   
         It is by theobromine alone I set my mind in motion."   
            --from Someone else's Dune spoof ripped to my taste.   
      
   --   
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   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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