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In reply to the discussion: Fatal Cop Shooting Suspect Killed In Standoff [View all]one-eyed fat man
(3,201 posts)34. Learned nothing from the Eighteenth Amendment?

Prohibition failed to control alcohol in any meaningful way, corrupted governments, and enriched criminal enterprises.
The War on Drugs continues to fail to control drugs in any meaningful way, corrupts governments, enriches criminal enterprises and has millions of potheads denying any responsibility for the 30,000 dead Mexicans killed fighting over their market share.
But your are certain THIS TIME, it will work with guns. The same cartels that dig tunnels with rail cars and elevators into San Diego would be completely unable to provide the gangs of LA all the AKs and RPGs their money can buy?
Smoke a lot of that stuff, do you?
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Hey...don't look at me...I'm not the one encouraging doing away with a failed system.
ellisonz
Dec 2011
#20
What you've overlooked in your moral entrepeneurship is the system hasn't failed.
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2011
#21
But gun laws are far less restrictive than they were forty years ago- and there are far more guns...
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2011
#25
I've refuted the basis of most of your studies which are narrowly constructed...
ellisonz
Dec 2011
#41
Hardly- the NICS is run by the FBI, who also run the national crime databases.
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2011
#30
you referred to 'the defense of unlimited gun rights go unchallenged on this board'
aikoaiko
Dec 2011
#37
No, but all these accounts of satanic ritual abu..., err gun crimes
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2011
#24