Tony Blair is holding a summit to find solutions to Britain’s gun problem, after three boys were shot in their homes.
I know the solution, and it is really very easy and straightforward. Drum roll please. Are you ready?
Legalise drugs.
No-one ever got shot over cigarettes, alcohol, or anything you can buy for £2.99 from Boots.
I’m sure the 20+ dead students at Virginia Tech will be glad to hear your words of wisdom on the subject.
Dunblane, Hungerford, Columbine, now Virginia.
How would legalising drugs have helped?
And you seem to believe that arming everyone would have helped.
http://www.robfisher.net/blog/archive/category/self-defense/
Let’s see –
US: Right to bear arms
UK: No right to bear arms
Well, looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_massacre#List_of_School_Massacres it looks like the right to bear arms has done them a whole heap of good.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6560685.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Tech_shootings
http://www.roanoke.com/news/nrv/wb/xp-21770
This was a post about drug related violent crime. It doesn’t have anything to do with school shootings. I’d never argue that legalising drugs would help stop school shootings.
Legalising drugs would solve a plethora of problems, not least of which would be taking the power out of the hands of the dealers and into the hands of the authorities. If hard drugs were made available on the NHS to addicts, it would also massively reduce crimes rates, as addicts would no longer need to go about robbing petrol stations, breaking into cars and mugging old women to feed their habits. The problem is that over the past 40 years, drugs have been demonised to such an extent by politicians and the media, that even proposing such a move would be political suicide.