Stopping Illegally Funded Gun Buy-Backs

 

Mayor Joseph DiGirolamo and Director of Public Safety Fred Harran of Bensalem, PA state that their two day gun buy-back of February 6 and 16 was the first in the nation financed with federal funds seized from drug dealers.

 

http://theinternatio...-buy-backs.html

Nice. Give the money back to the drug dealers.

besides that the make you break the law by transporting a handgun other than to a range, a..holes

Nice. Give the money back to the drug dealers.

 

Wouldn't it be better to legalize drugs? If one is going to say that guns should be legal one should also say that drugs should be legal too. It's about property rights. They apply to everything including guns & drugs. Once you concede the principle that property rights aren't absolute you can't defend the ownership of guns anymore. Take their drugs but leave my guns alone doesn't work. Now we see the war on drugs financing the war on guns. Time to come around on this one, drug warriors.

besides that the make you break the law by transporting a handgun other than to a range, a..holes

Don't think that counts since it's PA, right?

Wouldn't it be better to legalize drugs? If one is going to say that guns should be legal one should also say that drugs should be legal too. It's about property rights. They apply to everything including guns & drugs. Once you concede the principle that property rights aren't absolute you can't defend the ownership of guns anymore. Take their drugs but leave my guns alone doesn't work. Now we see the war on drugs financing the war on guns. Time to come around on this one, drug warriors.

 

how do you go from guns - an established and explicit right in the constitution to drugs. Please explain.

 

this i got to see...

I don't mind ending the war on drugs. It's stupid and it's your damn body! Let's not throw any more money down the rat hole. I would be in favor of protecting minors but adults can pretty much go to town, as long as they pay for their own healthcare if they eff themselves up.

how do you go from guns - an established and explicit right in the constitution to drugs. Please explain.

 

I'm dealing with the principles here not the legalities. As I explained it is about property rights. Let me add the non-aggresion principle. It is immoral to initiate the use of force or the threat of force against peaceful people. In other words, a person has to be actually engaging in aggression or credibly threatening to do so before it is morally justifiable to use force in retaliation. They have to initiate the use of force to take people's guns &/or drugs:

Gun Control and the War on Drugs

 

Many opponents of gun control support the war on drugs, and many critics and reformers of America's drug laws tend to believe in gun control. Conservatives tend to fall into the first category and liberals into the second.

In reality, these two issues are more similar than many people might think.

In both cases — laws that restrict which guns people may buy, own, and carry; and laws that restrict which drugs people may buy, possess, and ingest — what we're dealing with are possession crimes: victimless offenses against the state, whereby merely having something is branded a crime and punishable by fines and imprisonment.

Both types of laws are terribly immoral, as they are affronts to basic personal liberty. In a free society, all individuals own themselves and the products of their labor and exchange, and are free to do as they wish so long as they do not commit violence and fraud against other people. Arresting, prosecuting, and incarcerating people for the weapons they choose to own or the drugs they choose to consume are immoral violations of the rights of self-ownership, and the corollary rights to control one's own body and property. (snip)

 

http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory76.html