Re:Drug Traffickers Are Spoofing Border Drones
by rayiner on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @11:26AM
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How are speed limits and licensing requirements working? It's illegal to speed and illegal to drive without a license, yet there are tens of thousands of traffic deaths every year. How is gun control working? It's illegal to own high-powered weapons, but there are tens of thousands of gun-related murders each year. Does that mean we should get rid of traffic laws and gun control laws?
And while prescription drug abuse constitutes about half of overdose deaths,[1] that leaves over 20,000 deaths a year from non-prescription drugs, and many of those deaths from prescription drugs would not have happened if those drugs were used as prescribed.
Re:Drug Traffickers Are Spoofing Border Drones
by rwmj on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @11:53AM
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The US doesn't really have "gun control". Here in the UK, gun control is working very well, thanks for asking. That doesn't mean that guns are completely unavailable in the UK, but the murder rate here is a fraction of what it is in the US.
> But the politicians supporting drug control are the bad guys.
How's that drug war working? Drugs are very illegal, yet there are many people dying from overdose. The US imprisons millions of people, yet drugs are still easily available and very cheap.
Also, the article you link talks about prescription drug deaths - many of these are legally prescribed, legally owned, not being abused, meds that the owner accidentally overdoses on.
"There has been a dramatic increase in use of prescription drugs as physicians have become more liberal in prescribing them," said Paulozzi, adding that the bulk of drug-related deaths stems from accidental opioid painkiller overdoses. "