Pubdate: Tue, 04 Apr 2006
Source: Monroe Times (WI)
Copyright: 2006 Monroe Publishing LLC
Contact:  http://www.themonroetimes.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/4064
Author: Rev. Thomas M. Miller Sr.
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/pot.htm (Cannabis)

DRUGS DON'T KILL AND DRUG LAWS DO? PLEASE!

Argyle -- A letter printed in your paper on March 30 castigated the 
official press release about the recent shootings in Lafayette County 
for "clouding and...mitigating the tragedy." The letter writer 
stated, "It is irrelevant whether the man suspected of the shooting 
was growing marijuana. ..." He added that such information "had no 
place in the facts of the incident."

Yet, two paragraphs later, the letter writer informs us that "The 
true blame lies entirely with the real trigger puller -- the 
Department of Justice and its convoluted drug laws."

Apparently the letter writer would have us believe that drugs had 
nothing to do with the deaths, but that the drug laws did. In other 
words, it is those who make the laws rather than those who break the 
laws who are responsible for crimes.

Why stop short? If we remove the laws against breaking into houses 
and shooting people, I suppose none of this would have happened. It's 
obvious that the guns weren't doing all the smoking.
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MAP posted-by: Beth Wehrman