Re: Since you asked...

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One point of clarification, which the CDC does not make

Jun 8, 2022, 9:48 AM

any more clearly than you just did and for a similar reason.... those numbers of deaths are ALL DRUG OVERDOSES, period. Prescription, over the counter, LEGAL AND illegal. They then say 70% are opioids, but they do not differentiate between legal (prescription) and illegal opioids.

What we have is a meth and especially a fentanyl problem. That is what has mainly increased the most.

The link below gives you a lot more insight. When the opioid crisis began, all you heard about was Oxycontin, and other prescription opioids. And they were a problem. But the majority of the rise in deaths has come from fentanyl and meth. But they still lump everything into "opioid deaths". And the combinations are what is most deadly. Fentanyl is used as an additive to illegal drugs, AND legal drugs. The combination deaths with fentanyl are what is really a bad problem right now, or has made it worse.

https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates

Overdose Death Rates | National Institute on Drug Abuse

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention collects information on deaths involving many commonly used drugs The CDC's reporting on deaths by overdose.

As for priorities? I dunno. Covid has killed more Americans in two years than two decades of all drug overdoses, combined. Vehicle deaths are way up there too. And guns, well that's around 500,000-600,000 deaths, total since 2000. But of all the nasty things that have killed 500,000+ Americans since 2000, guns are the least regulated. That's just a fact. Drugs are either illegal, or heavily regulated. Cars are heavily regulated. Driving is highly regulated.

But, I guess since a well regulated militia is necessary for the security of a free state (with no standing Army), I guess guns can't be regulated at all. When the Constitution was written, the United States didn't exist, and there was no standing army. As such, state and local militias were necessary (early on) for protection in the Revolutionary War. We fought and beat the British largely with personal firearms used by members of state militias (even if serving in the Continental Army, most soldiers were members of state militias. The US quickly established the first standing army AFTER the Constitution was written and the British were defeated, but even then it was not equipped. Today there are millions serving in the armed forces, who are well regulated and well armed, providing security of our free state. And even if there was a major war and a draft, you won't be taking your 12ga. shotgun into basic training or into combat, or even your AR-15. Nope. Prior to the Constitution, when we fought the British in the Revolutionary War, the war was fought by state militias, with citizens armed largely with their own personal firearms. State militias largely fought the British, even though they established a Continental Army, the Army was filled from the ranks of state militias and those soldiers brought their personal guns into the combat. George Washington served before the war in the Virginia militia.

You never see the full 2nd Amendment recited by gun rights folks. Because if they recited the entire sentence, and you crack a history book, it's game over. Even the National Guard today, the remnants of the original state militias, they are equipped with weapons far superior to private citizens. If you're deployed with the guard, you're not bringing your own personal guns.

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Not all people. Just gun people.***

Re: Not all people. Just gun people.***

Gun ownership is not political expression.

Re: Gun ownership is not political expression.

If they are terrorists they're no longer political

Re: If they are terrorists they're no longer political

Tell me where in the PATRIOT Act terrorist have rights?***

Re: If they are terrorists they're no longer political

Or domestic terrorists. I think you know who.***

Re: Or domestic terrorists. I think you know who.***

Right right right.

Re: Right right right.

Randy Weaver was Trump's handler in Russia and confirmed

Re: Gun ownership is not political expression.

Says the guy who doesn't know the PATRIOT Act like any

Re: Gun ownership is not political expression.

It's implied.***

Just imagine how many drug-related deaths there would be if they were legal.

Since you asked...

Did you know mushrooms are far and away the

Re: Did you know mushrooms are far and away the

Don't be dumb.***

Perhaps chemically... By the way, you REALLY don't want to

Re: Perhaps chemically... By the way, you REALLY don't want to

Probably never made it out of the shower... ;~)

Okay so you don't actually know what you're talking about?

I use to grow'em, dry'em, make 'tea'. Been to Ixtlan, too.

So how exactly is that chart wrong about their safety?***

Have you ever been around someone doing 'shrooms on a

Is their lasting psychological damage, or is it just

Spacey, dude, and I don't mean Kevin-like....***

How long are we talking? Like just as they're coming down

No, I don't think it's lifelong... but I've seen some where

If anything they've become more potent with better grow

Just a matter of which Mega Pharma gets the patents...***

SOLOS sounds like a great PHARMA name if you want to get

Go to Ixtlan and get the 10x stuff? Nah, no cartels for me.***

One point of clarification, which the CDC does not make

Wow, outstanding post!

The idea of the 2A as a collective right died,

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