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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRep. Boebert introduces bill to label fentanyl as weapon of mass destruction
WASHINGTON (KDVR) U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert introduced a bill that would bring a new classification to fentanyl, involving the Department of Homeland Security.
The Fentanyl is a WMD Act would instruct the Assistant Secretary for the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office within DHS to treat the deadly drug as a weapon of mass destruction. Title XIX of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 created the office and created its mission to coordinate federal efforts to detect and protect against unauthorized importation, possession, storage, transportation, development or use of weapons of mass destruction in the United States.
A weapon of mass destruction is defined by DHS as a nuclear, radiological, chemical, biological, or other device that is intended to harm a large number of people.
Back home in Colorado, almost everyone I talk to knows someone who has died from fentanyl, Boebert said in a statement. Fentanyl is Americas silent killer and is now the leading cause of death for Americans aged 18 to 45. The saddest thing about the fentanyl crisis is that it is preventable. National security experts know that the vast majority of deadly fentanyl plaguing our communities comes across the southern border. Just last year, Border Patrol encountered enough fentanyl at the border to kill every American seven times over. There is no way around itthe Biden Border Crisis is killing Americans. It is time to call fentanyl what it is: a weapon of mass destruction that is destroying our nation.
https://kdvr.com/news/rep-boebert-introduces-bill-to-label-fentanyl-as-weapon-of-mass-destruction/
Aristus
(66,434 posts)marble falls
(57,144 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(175,747 posts)marble falls
(57,144 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(175,747 posts)marble falls
(57,144 posts)dchill
(38,515 posts)...to do it myself.
underpants
(182,860 posts)See post #2 here
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=16796961
dchill, hilarious 😆
Demsrule86
(68,632 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,211 posts)dchill
(38,515 posts)peacefreak2.0
(1,023 posts)Stay off ATVs, Lauren.
RicROC
(1,204 posts)hlthe2b
(102,327 posts)Of course not. That would mean she is a sentient human being.
That's what they used on me to relieve me of my consciousness at the dentist last year. Worked great, got a lot of work done and I totally missed it. Someone drove me to and from, all I had to do was take a naps and eat something when I awoke and it was like nothing happened. I loved it, was totally worth what little it cost. I'll never do that drug unless I'm in that situation, needing to miss the dental work being done.
PSPS
(13,608 posts)2naSalit
(86,727 posts)Research document if it reached out and bit her. She most certainly would have to pay someone to explain it to her, she'd write indecipherable notes on her hands and then go out on the House floor and spew her learned talking points.
ProfessorGAC
(65,127 posts)...in her hands, tell her it's a research document, and she still wouldn't know what one was.
underpants
(182,860 posts)Not that it isnt true but these are people who voted for her.
sop
(10,226 posts)dalton99a
(81,563 posts)NCLefty
(3,678 posts)It's funny how quick they want to ban something deadly when it's not a gun.
Celerity
(43,465 posts)allnews
(244 posts)Why stop with fentanyl?
NewHendoLib
(60,018 posts)Weapon of mass disgust
keithbvadu2
(36,860 posts)Republican verifies that republicans are the users of fentanyl.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216683046
https://www.newsweek.com/maga-voter-deaths-fentanyl-via-border-does-look-intentional-jd-vance-1702428
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/11/jd-vances-claim-that-biden-is-targeting-maga-voters-with-fentanyl/
J.D. Vances claim that Biden is targeting MAGA voters with fentanyl
If you wanted to kill a bunch of MAGA voters in the middle of the heartland, how better than to target them and their kids with this deadly fentanyl?
It does look intentional. Its like Joe Biden wants to punish the people who didnt vote for him and opening up the floodgates to the border is one way to do it.