GigaBuist
Member
Show of hands, how many people here calling for the death penalty actually KNOW a drug dealer on a somewhat personal level? I do, and no I'm not a customer or anything. I just know who they are from my younger years.
They're not all that bad, at least the ones I know. I'll grant you that a my cousin, a drug dealer, is a horrible person, and should have been locked up a long long time ago (in and out of the prison system) but the ones I know really aren't out for blood or anything.
Hell I know people that have ben "cut off" by their dealers when the dealer thought their habit was getting out of control. Maybe that's a rarity, but a "client" that's out of control is a liability to themselves and to the dealer. Just good business sense.
If you don't know a real-deal drug dealer then do you know anybody who makes mooonshine? Makes too much home brew to be legal and sells it? Same deal, really, at least in my mind.
End the prohibition on some drugs and watch the violence surrounding them disappear as proper businessmen (might even be the same people) take control of the legal industry. They can use the courts to settle their differences then, if there's any legal recourse, instead of violence.
Just my two cents.
They're not all that bad, at least the ones I know. I'll grant you that a my cousin, a drug dealer, is a horrible person, and should have been locked up a long long time ago (in and out of the prison system) but the ones I know really aren't out for blood or anything.
Hell I know people that have ben "cut off" by their dealers when the dealer thought their habit was getting out of control. Maybe that's a rarity, but a "client" that's out of control is a liability to themselves and to the dealer. Just good business sense.
If you don't know a real-deal drug dealer then do you know anybody who makes mooonshine? Makes too much home brew to be legal and sells it? Same deal, really, at least in my mind.
End the prohibition on some drugs and watch the violence surrounding them disappear as proper businessmen (might even be the same people) take control of the legal industry. They can use the courts to settle their differences then, if there's any legal recourse, instead of violence.
Just my two cents.