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Mon Apr 23 15:05:25 BST 2007

In a message dated 4/23/2007 8:53:14 AM Central Daylight Time,  
pbjorn at emh.org writes:

Nonsense.  This is like saying we need to send more troops and  cash and
contractors to Iraq because there's a war on.

The sooner we  all admit that we're accomplishing zilch, the sooner we
can turn our  attention to helping each other with soluble problems, and
becoming less  ornery in the bargain.

ok...then take the main reason for acute prison overcrowding out and lower  
the financial incentive for criminal activity by rationalizing drug  laws and 
abandoning the silly 'just say no' policy by removing most drug  prohibitions 
and targeting major pushers instead of 'small fish' and  users...provide for 
safe needle exchange and otherwise treat drug abuse as the  public and mental 
health problem that it is, and use the taxes generated to help  fund the needed 
treatment. As a side effect, this will allow us to redirect many  of the 
federal and state workers currently engaged in the useless 'War on [Some]  Drugs' 
into more productive areas...

Use the prison space thus freed up to put the hard core of gang members  
responsible for many of the "black on black" and "brown on brown'  firearms deaths 
in the US behind bars for prolonged periods of time, which  will have the 
effect of reducing US firearms deaths by an order of magnitude  more or less and 
reducing the costs of urban trauma systems by a similar  amount.

All by reducing the number of laws on the books and enforcing the rest of  
them effectively.

ck
Charles S. Krin, DO FAAFP

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