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Glad to agree to disagree. I understand my view of drugs is in the minority by far. We have it pounded into our pumpkins that drugs are bad. They are in many cases but our fine govern has gone so far over the top. They wasted so much time and money on this "war on drugs". It does nothing but line pockets and the results are crap. Endless law enforcement and court time spent on it. I would say more than any other in our criminal justice system. I agree that under age should be illegal but as an adult I can make my own choices. They are everywhere legal or not. Their war on drugs as done nothing to stop that but it has filled the prisons and wasted billions with little to no results.

Educate people and let them make their own choices. I think the problem would be no worse if that was the law of the land than it is now. I do know we would have a lot less people in prison for victimless crimes. We would also take much of the money out of the drug trade. Mexico would thank us for that. Places where things are legal have less problems than us. In fact I would say the vast majority of victimless crimes are a joke.

Explosives-Now gun accidents happen but no more with the weapons you wish to ban that any other so banning certain types will do nothing with that unless you wish to ban them all. You could get hit by the dropped 22 just as easy as the dropped 50 cal. And when the neighbor drops his riffle and the shell goes off the bullet is much less likely to do someone harm than when the neighbor sets off the mini mushroom cloud and takes out the entire block and half the next one.

Explosives are much different than firearms but of course you know that but I appreciate the taking of it to the next level. You will find some that can not see the difference and thus will agree there is not one. Thereby allowing regulation of one we must allow regulation of all. Pretty big stretch though and just does not work in this case. Thanks for the discussion though.