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Unread 01-15-2013, 10:00 PM   #20
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Originally Posted by mrerick View Post
I guess the objectives are met:

- Politicians "do something" and exercise their power and control
- Establish and fund a massive new government bureaucracy
- Destroy a previously legal marketplace, creating opportunity for criminal profits
- Only impact law abiding citizens while (at the same time) having no impact on violent crime

What's next - cars that can go more than 50mph? Those are so much more dangerous.

Marc
Sounds very much like how the prohibition turned out. Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.
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