Drug-Addled Gasbag Steps In It

No, they just get in their BMW's and commit vehicular homicide while DUI.

 

Well, the manage of a store that has been defrauded by an employee to get money for more pain-killers is, well, still going to be alive.
The night-shift clerk at a convenience store being stuck up by a crack addict might not live to tell the tale.

 

Wow. I wasn't aware that there was a recent nationwide spate of BMW drivers getting drunk and killing people.
Got to start watching the news.

 

No, I'm not shifting anything. I merely pointing out, and I think crime statistics will back me up, that people addicted to crack and meth probably commit more violent crimes than people addicted to back pain-killers. Plus, someone with a bad back would have a hard time sprinting to the getaway car.

 

Well, to be fair, as per usual, you're arguing the hypothetical stick-up of a liquor store.

I'm sure DUI car crashes kill more each year than liquor store hold-ups by crackheads, yet liquor is legal while crack remains illegal.

Kind of pokes a hole in your tangential crime ethos, doesn't it?

 

No, you stop making generalizations.

Check the stats on alcohol related traffic deaths and get back to me.

You're like the old fogies in the 60's who railed against the potheads after their sixth scotch on the rocks.

 

I think we're piling on, Zeke.

 

It was the obvious point, though.

All told, the only argument to be made is a strict legal one, and that, to me, owes more to economics than anything else.

Either way, Rush is scum.

 

It's Hondo. He doesn't intelligently argue with facts. He throws out generalizations that are mixed with his fears of the unknown. You can't take him seriously because he's a know-nothing.

 

Since we're robbing liquor stores --


One guy walks into a store with a gun to feed his habit. One guy walks into a store with a gun to feed his family. The law makes no distinction between the two.

Individuals - including judges and jury members - may make that distinction, but the law itself does not.

 

There certainly is a difference between a person that gets addicted to painkillers prescribed for a medical condition and a crack addict.....you don't see that? A large percentage of people addicted to opiates get hooked simply by following the directions given to them by their doctor.

Not one person crack addict was ever given the drug by a medical professional. I don't see a difference between the guy buying pills or crack illegally....but in many cases there's a huge difference in how they get to that point.

 

And if it wasn't Rush you guys would be on the other side of this argument. Give me a break.