Far more school kids die from a drug over dose

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  1. logical1

    logical1 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Sadly far more school age kids die from a drug over dose than any school shootings. Why arent the left wingers organizing walk outs and marches against drugs. To the contrary many states have now legalized pot, the gateway drug to many other killer drugs.

    Any liberals here care to comment on this and tell us why not?
     
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    I guess I'll go ahead and say it:

    The War on Drugs is a scam. The talking points against pot is wholly dishonest and hypocritical. The kids dying from overdose is a modern American culture problem and really can't be blamed on anything else.
     
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    Except study after study shows legal pot is not a gateway to anything.
     
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    Because one thing is a problem...does not mean that another thing is not a problem.

    Stupid claim
     
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    Do they die in school? If not, what's your point.
     
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    False claim
     
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    If liberals say nothing can be done about something then nothing can be done about something.

    The tobacco business model is within easy reach with well known locations and records going back a hundred years -- so go get 'em.

    The criminal drug trade is much more difficult than that to reach, so just accept it and let the OD deaths continue unabated.
     
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    Or legalize drugs and end the drug war, use the money that previously went to prisons to fund treatment programs for addicts to get clean, and see OD deaths drop as has been shown in several programs where those steps were taken.
     
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    If liberals worked to control pot again would you work to control guns (not eliminate. control)
     
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    logical1 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    So you are saying that it is just fine with you to let kids die?
     
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    BS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A lie spread by pot heads.
     
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    logical1 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    They are school children, and probably got the drugs at school.
     
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    The logical answer would be that drugs that kill are already illegal. You really stepped in it this time.
     
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    Guns dont kill anyone, criminals do.
     
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    The do something about them, like march on Washington.
     
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    If you cant do anything about drugs, how do you expect more gun laws to do something about guns, and more important the criminals that use them????
     
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    Nope. It isn't fine at all to let kids die. But attacking irrelevant things won't help them. It's the social atmosphere that drives them to drugs. As a country, we need to do something about that.
     
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    If an inanimate object like a gun can't kill people, how does an inanimate object like a drug kill people? You're all over the place.
     
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    So a four yr old who finds his parents' gun and accidentally shoots his sibling is a criminal? Seems a tad harsh.
     
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    Drugs don't kill anyone, taking them do.
     
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    Does one have to be a liberal to value children's lives? I am not a liberal, and I value children.

    What makes you think that walk-outs and marches would have any effect on reducing drug use? That makes no sense.

    The main victims of drug overdose deaths are not children. They are white men between 25 and 54 years of age who live in politically red states. If you are a middle-aged, white, Trump supporter, you are much more likely to kill yourself with drugs than it you are a young, female anti-Trumpista of color.

    https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db294.htm

    However, you are correct in one sense. Drug deaths now surpass both motor vehicle and gun deaths; it's just that kids are not the most vulnerable age group.
     
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    Oh right, of course, and you know this........? So, you're argument now is that schools are filled with drugs. Surprised that you didn't say that teachers are selling them to the kids. If you're going to say "probably" could you back that up with anything?
    I'm gonna say, you're probably wrong.
     
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    Yes, but most of them were not criminals until they grabbed a gun in a fit of rage and shot a neighbor or family member. It was committing homicide that turned them into criminals in the split second it took to pull the trigger.

    Cigarettes don't kill people. Cigarette smokers kill people. Guns don't kill people. Gun owners kill people.
     
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    So, since you have given up on society, why not give us all a break with this nonsense.
     

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