Overdose on Guns

Rob Long
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From Robert VerBruggen, at Real Clear Policy, this simple graph:imageThree reactions:

  1. I have no idea what explains the steep drop in motor vehicle deaths. I haven’t noticed people driving more safely since 2006. Have you? Could it be gas prices leading to fewer cars on the road? (But gas prices have been dropping …)
  2. Gun deaths seem to be constant. So, another mystery: Why are lefty progressives acting like it’s an epidemic?
  3. Drug overdose deaths are skyrocketing. Why isn’t Barack Obama having town meetings about that?
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  1. Wiley Inactive
    Wiley
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    8:13 AM EST ⋅ Jan 14, 2016

    Manny:Decriminalizing anything has shown to increase use. No, I would not support decriminalizing heroin.

    I know exactly what you mean, “I’ve from the government and I am here to help you.”

    This is classic left thinking. I must help this person even if I destroy a hundred other lives in the process. But even the left now knows the drug war is lost.

    2016 UN report on the drug war:

    MYTH: Strict prohibition reduces drug use.

    FACT: There has been no significant reduction in global use of illicit drugs since the UN’s drug conventions came into force half a century ago. Illicit drugs are now purer, cheaper, and more widely used than ever. A recent report from the UK Home Office highlighted “the lack of any clear correlation between the ‘toughness’ of an approach and levels of drug use”.

    CATO Institute:

    Both in the United States and around the world, the War on Drugs has been a humanitarian catastrophe and a financial money pit.

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