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Doug Miller[_4_]

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On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 00:21:42 -0500, "J. Clarke"
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In article ,
says...

On Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:14:54 +0000 (UTC), Doug Miller
wrote:

Han wrote in
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Gang killings very often involve innocent bystanders.
These aren't sniper- like, but wild shooyouts from passing
cars, rooftops, or just plain on crowded streets.

Too true. The solution to that problem, though, isn't to ban
firearms (since the criminals will have them anyway) -- it's
to dry up the funding source for the street gangs, by
legalizing drugs. Seriously.
Legalizing drugs may make a small dent in their funding.
Legalize
prostitution and you will dry up another SIGNIFICANT source of
gang revenue - if by legalizing it you can guarantee that
NOBODY will be fighting over the profits/control of the trade.
Legalizing tobacco has not eliminated the trade in illicit
(untaxed) tobacco,

Only because the taxes on tobacco have been raised to a
ludicrous level in a stupid and misguided effort at a back-door
ban.

and the criminal element involvement in it's production,
impoortation, and distribution.

So how significant is this involvement by a "criminal element"?
Please state your source.

Same can be said for booze. Still lots of bootlegging going
on, and smuggling/sale of untaxed liquor. Remove the profits
from drugs and the criminal element / gangs will just find
something more attractive to make their money on - and
continue killing over it.

"Lots"? I'd like to see your source on that.

Millions of dollars of "untaxed liquor" is produced in the
Kentukee/Tennesee /Virginia/North Carolina backwoods every year.
And the numbers are going up, not down, dispite law enforcement
efforts.

I said I'd like to see your source for that. Not more unsupported
assertions.

So -- got a source for that one too?

Real big business in places like Rocky Mount. ANd that does not
even start to touch the extent of it. Thousands of gallons of
liquor are smuggled into the USA (and Canada) every year, but
compared to the untaxed cigarette business, it is small
potatoes.

Again -- what is your source for all this?