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In reply to the discussion: Rioters attempt to set Pizza Shop Owner on fire...cops do nothing. [View all]LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)56. Hey now, I hate the drug war
The violence we've caused in Mexico is a moral abomination. Incarceration people for possession is not something I support.
BTW
Reliable statistics on the number of drug-related murders in the United States are hard to come by. A 1994 Department of Justice report suggested that between a third and a half of U.S. homicides were drug-related, while a recent Center for Disease Control study found that the rate varied between 5% and 25% (a 2002 Bureau of Justice report splits the difference). Part of this variance is that "drug-related" murders are hard to define. There are murders committed by people on drugs, murders committed by addicts to get money for drugs, turf-war murders by drug suppliers, and murders committed by gangs whose principal source of income is drug sales
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/12/the-single-best-anti-gun-death-policy-ending-the-drug-war/266505/
So regardless of which statistic is right, those gun statistics include people involved in gangs and the drug trade, not to mention those who get high and murder people. I'm not a gang member, not involved in narcotics, and not doing narcotics.
Those anti-gun stats don't apply to me or most Americans
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Rioters attempt to set Pizza Shop Owner on fire...cops do nothing. [View all]
OnlinePoker
Apr 2015
OP
Most other industrialized countries don't cause the biggest narco state in the world on their border
Fumesucker
Apr 2015
#53
Wow: Your Avatar is MLK and you think this situation would have been BETTER
TheSarcastinator
Apr 2015
#11
A White shop owner opening fire on an unarmed Black youths isnt going to bode too well
951-Riverside
Apr 2015
#33
"Ironically he appears North African, possibly Berber." No wonder the cops couldn't be bothered.
tenderfoot
Apr 2015
#40
You're right, he's African-American. My mistake but my point still stands. n/t
951-Riverside
Apr 2015
#41
I have a ton of of fucking empathy for people who have been trod upon for years.
ScreamingMeemie
Apr 2015
#23
Exactly. Apparently they're acceptable casualties in the name of "the cause."
NaturalHigh
May 2015
#83
Wow...easy to dismiss the suffering of so many when you're not, I guess. n/t
ScreamingMeemie
May 2015
#85
Of course it is...the so called liberal media apparently isn't concerned....
Historic NY
Apr 2015
#45
Interesting that when some people don't like the story they attack the source.
NaturalHigh
Apr 2015
#16