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On another angle.....how does banning an object, substance, or item make people on a whole or as individuals safer? I don't care if its guns or heroin, they don't case damage until someone uses them improperly.
In the case of a gun that could be considered to be commiting murder or a negligent discharge that injures someone else.
In the case of heroin.....if you want to use it thats your call, your only doing it to yourself, and you know the risks.
Hurting yourself shouldn't be considered a crime, just stupid.
The argument for drugs being illegal tries to justify itself by (among other things)pointing to crimes committed by people to support/pay for their habit, which is pure BS. Robbing a store for money to buy heroin or meth is no worse that robbing it to obtain money to buy beer, jewlery, or anything else. It is robbery, and is illegal no matter what your motivations/reasons.
The argument against private ownership of guns is that people might kill someone for a reason other than self defence. Well, people do that all the time WITHOUT a gun (the most common murder weapon in the US is a "blunt object" according to the FBI), and it too is also illegal no matter what implement or weapon you may or may not use.
POTENTIAL for harm is by itself is not sufficient grounds to deprive people of something, unless you wish to be stripped of almost every tool, item, and artifact of use in your life as most of them can be misused to harm someone if you desire to.
If you don't like guns, you don't have to have them or hang around people who have them. If you don't like drugs, likewise. If you worry about your hearing stay away from loud nightclubs......but don't make the choices for other people unless your willing to have them force their choices on your life.

tbh comparing drugs and guns is futile, considering guns are created, designed even, to cause damage/death to people/animals, by saying its legal is condoning the use of a deadly weapon.

just to make sure that everyone is clear, my arguments are against gun owners using the 2nd amendment as a reason to own a gun, that i think the 2nd amendment is outdated and that there is no real reason to own a gun anywhere apart from self defence, even then there is still non-lethal ways :\

[Morning Glory]

they've just ratified the 32nd amendment, now you can smoke crack on a roller coaster, but only while listening to Winger on a wednesday.

[KilLAtomiK]

WInger? fuck that id rather not smoke at all