Reply #5: A gem in the rough...

[beevul]

A lump of coal, that is.

maybe, just maybe you could sit in your yard bailing out the sewage flowing into it from your neighbour's cesspool all day and all night, and still have crap floating in your goldfish pond.

You'd at least have the practical option of pumping it into your neighbour's basement.

I'll bet Chicago and Philly and the rest wish they could do that. Should they give it a try?

Maybe, just maybe, if random people were carrying a bucket at a time of sewage and dumping it in my yard, and if said sewage was accepted in yards all across america and possession of said sewage was constitutionally protected, and my yard wasn't private property, you'd have made an honest and valid comparison. You didn't though.

Every firearm seized from someone who commits a crime in Chicago that is traced to a vendor or owner in another part of Illinois gets handed over to a parolee in its home county. How would that be?

Right, because everyone outside Chicago and Philly and the rest is taking every firearm seized from someone who commits a crime outside Chicago and Philly and the rest and handing it over to a parolee in Chicago or Philly or the rest?


Give me a fucking break.

What I said stands. If Chicago wants to be that different than its neighbors, it should iether do whatever it takes to make what its doing work, or admit that it isn't going to work and try something else, instead of blaming its neighbors.


Arguments like yours contribute to things like interfering with other countries business in the name of the war on drugs, and are in fact quite parallel to the justifications I have seen made for the DEA to go far outside its jurisdiction and poke its nose in places where it has no business being.

If the US doesn't wan't marijuana coming into its jurisdiction from say CANADA, do what it takes in its own jurisdiction to make that happen, or admit that it just doesn't work.

Or do you think the US should blame Canada, eh?

Same shit, just drugs instead of guns, and canada vs US instead of Chicago and Philly and the rest versus esentially everywhere else in the US.