Contributed by: filbert Wednesday, January 16 2008 @ 04:50 PM CST
Gun control is to prevent self defense.
Drug control is to prevent self medication.
All the rest is obfuscation.
I am inclined to agree . . .
Actually, I think both drugs and guns, legal or otherwise, are bad. The problem is, NOT having drugs or guns when the bad guys have them (guns) or our frail bodies are prone to disease (drugs) is even worse.
The only difference I can see is that the right to keep and bear arms is in the U.S. Constitution, while the right to self-medicate isn’t explicit (if you squint real hard, you can see it in the Ninth and Tenth Amendments:
Amendment IX.
The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.Amendment X.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Too bad that most people believe that the Bill of Rights only contains seven amendments: I, III, IV, V, VI, VII, and VIII. And most folks have a very, very hazy notion as to what’s in those.