What alot of us do not realize is that it costs money to shoot and kill people. I do not say this lightly or facetiously. I mention this because it's true. The cost of guns in Canada is prohibitively expensive. Not to mention the fact that illegally obtained ammunition can't be cheap either.
So where does all of this money come from? How much does a quality handgun in a country like Canada cost? Canada, which wisely does not allow its citizenry to own handguns just because they believe it's their god given right to do so, makes it difficult to find and purchase illegal guns. So buying a handgun here costs anywhere from $500 to $1,000. That's a lot of hours working at your local Starbucks just to pay for a gun.
Of course when you run a business that has profit margins in the thousands of percentiles, money is available to buy many guns and even more bullets. And what kind of business has a profit margin that high? Only a few that I know of. White slavery, counterfeiting money, or the most common business run by thugs, illegal drugs.
I wonder how many people would be killed in a gang war if the members of the gang had to wait until payday to buy a gun to do their shooting with. Or 2 paydays so they could buy bullets as well. I guess they could throw rocks but the kill ratio would drop dramatically
and would the membership requirements change to who has the best arm?
Of course this is all nonsense because as everyone knows, there is money galore from selling drugs to pay for guns, bullets, hand grenades and even land mines and machine guns.
Yet the truly troubling aspects of the profits being generated by the illegal drug trafficking
aside from the horrible violence is the staggering amounts of money being invested in legal businesses. And our political leaders allow this alarming trend to not only continue but actually encourage it to continue by refusing to change their approach to solving the problem.
I cannot be the only person who recognizes that the problem of all this violence is of our own making. By attempting to prohibit a person from using a chemical substance by criminalizing it all that occurs is the costs to purchase it go up and the people our society can least afford to amass fortunes are doing so at an alarming rate.
Ask yourself this question. What would really happen if all sanctions were removed from the use of drugs? Other than, of course, those associated with age or driving or public consumption. Are we all so stupid that we believe everyone would immediately rush out and become addicted? I hardly think so. Yet our leaders refuse to discuss anything approaching a solution to this problem and the associated violence and civic disorder.
So I leave you all with the thought that nothing changes when nothing changes, except perhaps to deteriorate even further. And finally this thought; 100 years ago there were no restrictions placed on any substance you wanted to put into your body. Prostitution was largely legal and the percentage of our citizenry incarcerated was so low as to be almost negligible.
The truth is that the drug "problem" has been created by those who recognize that the more "problems" a society has, the more willing the members of that society are to surrender what little freedom they enjoy in order to "solve" the problem.
So you see, things do get worse when nothing changes when nothing changes.
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