NorwegianElkhound
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This is an argument I'm working on.
Many people who oppose gun control use the argument that the gun doesn't hurt anyone, the person using it is in control and decides what to do with it. Well a lot of these people believe that drugs (not just cannabis) should be illegal though, to protect society. But I believe the argument could be used, the person using the drug is in charge of what happens with their drug usage. Not every person who uses drugs becomes addicted or commits crime (other than possession).
Just like with legal guns, bad things are bound to happen with drugs no matter what. At least in a legal regulated market, people will know what they're taking, and I believe the deaths will be reduced, and also removes the criminal aspect.
People will inevitably say "well guns aren't addictive, drugs are!" Well yeah, they can be. But almost every single schedule 1 drug besides some of the psychedelics (natural or accidentally discovered like LSD) and all of the schedules beneath it were created with the intention of helping, not hurting. Even heroin was meant to be a replacement in medicine for morphine. It's not like all or even most of the people who try drugs of abuse become hooked or die. If we're going to protect society from addiction and death, let's go all the way and take alcohol off the shelves, too. Problem is, most people don't see alcohol as a drug.
On the opposite side of that, assault rifles were originally developed specifically as weapons of war, specifically to kill people. Hollow point bullets are meant to be shot into someone. If someone thinks that a person going into an elementary school with an assault rifle and murdering 20 children, and then a movie theater and a church and more and more full of people isn't enough to make guns illegal, it doesn't really make sense to me that they would then also support drug prohibition. Again, it's up to the person and not everyone is going to be responsible. Don't punish everyone else.
This is something I've thought of recently and I would like the feedback of everyone here before I possibly use it in a debate one day.
Many people who oppose gun control use the argument that the gun doesn't hurt anyone, the person using it is in control and decides what to do with it. Well a lot of these people believe that drugs (not just cannabis) should be illegal though, to protect society. But I believe the argument could be used, the person using the drug is in charge of what happens with their drug usage. Not every person who uses drugs becomes addicted or commits crime (other than possession).
Just like with legal guns, bad things are bound to happen with drugs no matter what. At least in a legal regulated market, people will know what they're taking, and I believe the deaths will be reduced, and also removes the criminal aspect.
People will inevitably say "well guns aren't addictive, drugs are!" Well yeah, they can be. But almost every single schedule 1 drug besides some of the psychedelics (natural or accidentally discovered like LSD) and all of the schedules beneath it were created with the intention of helping, not hurting. Even heroin was meant to be a replacement in medicine for morphine. It's not like all or even most of the people who try drugs of abuse become hooked or die. If we're going to protect society from addiction and death, let's go all the way and take alcohol off the shelves, too. Problem is, most people don't see alcohol as a drug.
On the opposite side of that, assault rifles were originally developed specifically as weapons of war, specifically to kill people. Hollow point bullets are meant to be shot into someone. If someone thinks that a person going into an elementary school with an assault rifle and murdering 20 children, and then a movie theater and a church and more and more full of people isn't enough to make guns illegal, it doesn't really make sense to me that they would then also support drug prohibition. Again, it's up to the person and not everyone is going to be responsible. Don't punish everyone else.
This is something I've thought of recently and I would like the feedback of everyone here before I possibly use it in a debate one day.