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Originally posted by Ideal08
After saying all that, you must be an EXCELLENT judge of character. You can be as careful as you want of the company that you keep, and STILL get caught up. Because, contrary to popular belief, not all drug dealers are THUGS. And even if you are an excellent judge of character, a lot of people are not. And how do you know that their life was not threatened? Do you know how this game is played? Have you ever played with the justice system and the police? THEY DO NOT PROTECT YOU LIKE THEY SAY THEY DO!!!!! So how do you know everyone's situation in this? But you have no sympathy? The goverment is grateful for all who think like you. *Shaking my head*
I bet it's easy to sit up and say what you will and will not allow when a gun is not in your presence, and neither is the person who is not scared to use it. 
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To add to that, what about the elderly grandmother who is keeping a child for the actual parents. Say this child is caught up in the streets and does a little something extra to support him/herself and Grandma. The cops, as always, gotta be all up in it, and whoops! Grandma is evicted! Let's play devil's advocate and go with the slight possibliity that Grandma DID know about this...in the projects, there is an EXTREMELY short list of resources with which you can survive on. If you believe in the American Dream (or rather the Horatio Alger myth), you are sadly mistaken. Sure, peope are happy to say "Look at Oprah! If she did it, so can anyone else!" Well. Oprah is how many people? In prisons are HOW many people? STILL trapped in the ghetto are HOW many people? Drug laws were designed specifically to do this, and they are clearly working. And if you are disputing whether or not our beloved government is responsible for the drugs being there in the first place, let me know. I will gladly break it down.