-Political Debate-
Alright people, let us start off with a brief saying of a few things. This is a mature debate, if the only thing you have to post is what your parents have beat into your head or some stupid majorly biased stuff with nothing to back you up or no knowledge of the subject, please refrain from posting. Also please let these be mature debates, no flaming people on their opinions, and feel free to express your own. Thanks.
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| Alright, so after the Connecticut shooting, there has been a large amount of talk about the Democrats trying to get their usual stricter gun laws passed. This has been a topic of discussion for a while now, with the Democrats standing behind a stricter policy on gun ownership, and the Republicans as usual standing for the Constitutional rights. Some people believe that only fully automatic weapons should be controlled and/or banned. Others believe increasing the difficulty of obtaining a gun legally should be a large portion harder. And yet others believe weapons in the hands of 'untrained' civilians should not be legal at all. Then we have freedom fighters standing that we should be allowed to carry weapons simply because the government shouldn't have the right to change that. Right now the larger majority of the US population leans towards a stricter policy regarding already placed gun laws. However, this is only recently as of surveys taken almost directly after the recent school shooting. | |
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| | Alright, so recently Colorado and Washington state both passed the legalization of Marijuana, and hope for passing the remaining states stays true in a lot of minds. Marijuana has a lot of uses other than the usual thought of smoking it. Hemp is fairly cheap to grow and produce on a large scale, and can be used for a large variety of industrial purposes. Smoking Marijuana as well has no proven medical conflicts with persons with a developed brain. It does, however stop brain cell growth in children with undeveloped brains, and that is proven. It can be used for a painkiller for the terminally ill/elderly. A lot of people believe Marijuana shouldn't be legalized because their parents beat into their heads when they were young that it's a 'drug' and should therefore be classified as bad. These are the same people who typically speaking are okay alcohol and tobacco usage. Both tobacco and alcohol in a usage over moderation prove much more unhealthy than smoking Marijuana. Also, with good Federal moderation over it, the taxes and permit revenue would bring considerable revenue to the budget, obviously not the amount of getting debt anywhere near paid though. |
My Opinion:
In my opinion, gun laws should be either less as strict or stay at what they are. If you look at it from the viewpoint of if someone inside that Connecticut school would've had a conceal to carry pistol, 27 people wouldn't have died that day. I understand the idea that if the man hadn't found his mothers guns obtained legally in the first place, it wouldn't have happened either. However, if she had been a responsible gun owner, she would have kept them in a locked safe away from a child who had been already diagnosed with mental illness'. This is when I say, gun laws should stay the same, however become more enforced, not more harsh, just enforced more.
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My Opinion:
In my opinion, Marijuana should be legalized with very strict industrial usage, and a permit needed to purchase it for personal usage, not a 'medical' permit however. More so a permit to keep people who cannot control themselves from purchasing it. These are just my opinions. |
Please feel free to post your own opinions, as I'd love to hear them and see what others have to say about the presented debates. Again, please keep the flaming and idiocy outside of this thread. Have fun discussing, I'll be here to answer any questions I can and help out as much as possible.
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