Gun Control and Crime

http://www.nraila.org/media/misc/ACCC.htm

Guns are used much more often in self-defence than in violent crime. 

>>59
Exactly... the price would drop significantly.  The drugs themselves (in many cases) are not THAT expensive... what is expensive is that when you buy them, you are essentially paying someone to smuggle them through the U.S. to you. 

If they were legalized, this price would be removed, and on top of it, you would likely see large corporations and industries start producing them.  Large businesses and corporations production of them using the methods created during the green revolution (agri-business techniques) would drive the price WAY down. 

With lower prices to get them in the first place, there would likely be a further reduction in violent crime, as the poor folks would be able to buy plenty without stealing (supposing they were corporately produced, in a legal manner).

>>59

Keep in mind a lot of drug-related crimes are likely due to people stealing money so they can buy more of the drugs they want... if they were mass produced by corporations in a legal manner, resulting from the price drop, criminals might be able to buy them with earnings from legitimate work, and crime may subsequently drop. 

>>60
Not to mention that such legal atmosphere would open drug companies new markets and they might be able to create safer drugs similar to current ones. Would also help medical research that has been progressing quite slowly. Hell, we don't even have good medicine to use against AIDS(or any other virus) or cancer. We don't even have actually working weight-loss pills...