David Frum says guns don't kill people...pot kills people...

[cynatnite]

David Frum, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush who now works as editor of his own conservative political website, suggested in a recent opinion essay that last weekend's tragic events in Tucson, Arizona remind him of why the US must continue prosecuting the war on drugs -- and in particular, the war on America's marijuana users.

"After horrific shootings, we hear calls for stricter regulation of guns," he wrote. "The Tucson shooting should remind us why we regulate marijuana.

"Jared Lee Loughner, the man held as the Tucson shooter, has been described by those who know as a 'pot smoking loner.' He had two encounters with the law, one for possession of drug paraphernalia."

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/bush-speech-writer-blames-marijuana-mass-shooting-tucson/

Geez. :eyes:

[arbusto_baboso]

1. If anything, pot probably prevented Loughner from going off the deep end sooner.

It's the rare pothead who has the energy or inclination to get violent over anything except someone stealing their munchies.

[immoderate]

2. Paraphernalia will do that.

--imm

[Bluzmann57]

3. Except pot doesn't make one aggresive.

Proven fact.

[Canuckistanian]

4. Yes, because smoking pot makes you a wild-eyed, bloodthirsty maniac.

If you can get off the couch.

[DCKit]

14. Obviously, you've never seen the documentary "Reefer Madness".

:sarcasm:

[kwolf68]

5. Frum

This is epic fail.

[Joanie Baloney]

6. Frum's an idiot

Jared's best friend said that Jared totally went off pot and was into a healthy life-style for several months before the shooting. If anything, it was an absence of pot that made him go over the edge!

(Not really, but, Sheesh!!)

-JB

[TheKentuckian]

11. Not really was not necessary. Dude probably shouldn't have come off his meds

Self prescribed and administered or not.

[WhiteTara]

17. pot "attaches" to the serotonin receptors

and makes you calmer.

also affects short term memory and I can't remember the scientific term.

[Mojeoux]

19. No, REALLY...Pot can be an effective anti-anxiety med. nt.

[Ezlivin]

7. I'm going to kill myself right now

First, I load my bong....

[gatorboy]

8. Did we just rush back to the 50's?

This sudden pothead paranoia is hilarious in a frightening sort of way...

It's not the guns... It's the weed!

[TheKentuckian]

9. That dude has the brains of a dirty sweatsock filled with runny poop.

[jody]

10. That's an overflowing crock! People kill people whether firearms, bombs, etc. for personal beliefs

that other people simply don't understand.

That's why the U.S. will lose in Afghanistan.


04/-01/09

[CoffinEd]

12. Well...

I think it's safe to assume that Frum has never lighted up a "fattie."

[PhillySane]

13. I was just saying last night...

if we legalized marijuana, outlawed guns and replaced all the violence on tv/movies/videogames with porn, we'd be a much more peaceful, loving society. Helluva a lot more fun anyway.

[flakey_foont]

15. hmmm

I'm still here... so throw that theory out

[Starbucks Anarchist]

16. I remember when Willie Nelson and Tommy Chong went on that killing spree.

[Cirque du So-What]

18. Consider the tens of millions of people in this country who have tried marijuana

Each & every one of them will call bullshit on Frum's ludicrous assertion. The more the RW bloviates about marijuana as a root cause in Loughner's murderous rampage, the more ridiculous they look.

[Tsiyu]

20. They aren't going to win over the RW or Baggers either

two of the biggest pot dealers in this area are RightieTighties.

And no, I'm not under the influence. Don't have any, it's illegal here, though it should be legal.

I'd never narc on anyone but if i were the sort, i could turn over the names of dozens of RWers i know who "inhale"

This is just political suicide in this day and age, amusing as hell when you think about it.