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dolanp,

Maybe I'm just too cynical to exit, but when you wrote:

"The US saw the same kind of violence and lawlessness during alcohol prohibition. It hasn't learned its lessons and now it wants to blame the guns instead."

I was not sure just who you meant - the US population or the politicians. You are certainly correct that neither the alcohol, guns, drugs, or any object are "to blame" - the blame lies with people and their actions.

The lesson - well learned by politicians - is that to make something profitable, you make it illegal. I do not take drugs or support the taking of drugs, but do not support the "war on drugs" at all. With all the laws against drugs, your kids can buy any drug - as much as they want, if they have the dough - at school, most places.

What these laws do it 1) put the profit in the blackmarket trade, and 2) destroy any respect for law that the population might have had.

Ok - off my high horse. Just agreeing with you in a long-winded, cynical way.

Regards,
Andrew