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In reply to the discussion: Is there any difference between a maggot infestation and the NRA after a mass shooting? [View all]laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)I blame both though. Smugglers wouldn't smuggle if there was nothing to smuggle. It's not every day citizens using these smuggled guns. It's only the criminals. With drugs when they are smuggled, it's normal every day people who are now addicts who are the consumers. If there was no smuggling of drugs, then people make their own or move to another drug that is easier to get (prescription/alcohol). They cannot help it, they must have drugs. One cannot MAKE a gun (well that might change with those printers) and one cannot get it in Canada, therefore it must be smuggled.
I don't see your analogy as the same in the least. Are OK and NE drug deaths from MJ? If not, then it's not the same. At all. And did their MJ drug deaths go up? Somehow I doubt it. Did those MJ drug deaths come from MJ specifically smuggled from CO? If not, then it's just politicians blowing smoke. Is CO the huge country with 10 times the population bordering these poor tiny states? No? not the same.