While We're At It.....

[A Theist]

Its not about forbidding completely guns A Theist, its about better regulation. Having automatic weapons and military caliber guns it goes way over the need to defense.

What do you think of people owning guns having clean records, with compulsory regular psychological & physical examination, besides some lessons on how to use them when taking the license. This is how its done here, it won't end gun related incidents, but at least keep it to a minimum.

Another thing, your example is rather idiotic, it has nothing to do with guns. While obesity may be a health issue, being obese harms noone else but the subject. Apples & oranges Ol'chap, apples and oranges.

You guys are doing a good job of tap dancing around the topic of this thread....let's try this again, (or are you guys being selective on regulating things that only fit within a certain political agenda)....

"Its not about forbidding completely guns A Theist, its about better regulation."...okay, (even though there are those who advocate banning guns altogether), let's scratch the word "ban" for "regulate"...I'm talking about regulating the use and purchasing and selling of alcohol....Alcohol related deaths kill more people in America than all the deaths by drugs and guns combined, (alcohol related deaths to include homicides, suicides, traffic fatalities, domestic violence, alcohol related diseases, mental health, etc.)....Alcohol use is proven to be far more deadly than guns or drugs....if you're going to jump on the wagon to "better" regulate guns, why not jump on to better regulate the purchasing and selling of alcohol since it's proven to be far more deadly in our society?....

""Alcohol related injuries and deaths in the United States is a major problem that has seen little improvement over the last decade. In fact, alcohol related car accidents kill more people between the ages of 17 and 34 than any other cause. Alcohol is also closely associated with homicides, suicides, workplace injuries, domestic violence, assault, and complications and death resulting from alcohol related disease like cirrhosis of the liver. Understanding the potentially injurious or fatal risks that people take when they drink is essential to creating an educated public that is more cognizant of the need for self-control over alcohol.....While most adults in the country are probably aware that alcohol related car accidents are a serious problem, few are aware that the physical risks taken just by drinking are severe enough that thousands of people die from conditions related to alcoholism every year. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there are more than 23,000 deaths related to alcohol each year that are not traffic fatalities or homicides, and 14,406 of those are caused by alcoholic liver disease.(2) Adding these totals to just the total number of drunk driving fatalities alone and we can see that nearly 47,000 deaths occur as a result of these alcohol related causes alone."

http://recoveryfirst.org/alcohol-related...e-us.html/

"Another thing, your example is rather idiotic, it has nothing to do with guns. While obesity may be a health issue, being obese harms noone else but the subject. Apples & oranges Ol'chap, apples and oranges."....It wasn't meant to be taken as an example, it was intended for sarcasm...Ol' Chap.

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Legalizing marijuana would just be adding to an already seriously existing problem to drug and alcohol use....

http://www.usc.edu/student-affairs/Healt...subs2.html

In the Netherlands, where I live, problems with marijuana are relatively low, due to a policy of prevention instead of criminalization. Often people think it is widely tolerated, yet most people think smoking weed regularly is pathetic.

The result;
- less people use weed
- lower costs
- less crime, less people in jail
- selling pointa are regulated, keeping the costumer away from the crack dealers.

The policy is not perfect though.

I don't think marijuana is an easy drugs. Daily users often suffer mental problems, but stoned people are rarely agressive, in contrary to drunk people.

Thanks at least for staying on topic...