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Yeah, kinda. I was just thinking that liquor is made by regular companies here. But for drugs like heroin and cocaine etc., we don't really know who they're funding.
What's that....the fact that narcotics are generally manufactured overseas whereas alcohol is often produced domestically?
Absolutely! From the earliest days of the Republic corn could be made easier (and more economical) to transport to maket by converting it into whiskey... made more profit too.When liquor wasn't around to tax the gov't had a problem... where they had made money they were forced to spend money on enforcement of the Volstad Act... not zero sum but a minus sum game. Thias logic leads many to believe that drugs should be legalized (at least marijuana) and taxed ala tobacco and liquor. Savings on enforcement and increase in revenue on the taxation of same.Downside is another set of laws about use.
may I humbly point out that the first of the Federal Gun Control laws (National Firearm Act of 1934) was basicially a direct result of Prohibition.No more ordering your Thompson at your local hardware store and then having it delivered to your doorstep by Railway Express Agency prepaid.Thanks Volsted >:(
So if it weren't for Prohibition, I could have ordered an Uzi and received it at my door in under 30 minutes? ;D
So if it weren't for Prohibition, I could have ordered an Uzi and received it at my door in under 30 minutes? ;D
Hey, be reasonable.....30 days back in the not-so-rushed '20's"Express" was a relative term 😉
wasn't it Heinlein who wrote in “Stranger in a Strange Land” that “an armed society, is a safe society”. I can think of few truer words.
I read somewhere that one of the reasons the Germans did not mount any kind of invasion on U.S. soil was because Hitler knew how well armed American citizens were. I will see if I can find out where that came from…maybe someone here has heard of that?
I read somewhere that one of the reasons the Germans did not mount any kind of invasion on U.S. soil was because Hitler knew how well armed American citizens were. I will see if I can find out where that came from...maybe someone here has heard of that?
IIRC it was Admiral Yammamoto, who said of invading the West Coast that his troops would find "an armed American behind every blade of grass"
I had heard the same thing about Hitler. A few years ago a friend pointed out to me why China wouldn't invade – in a state like Michigan alone you have 400,000 hunters. Imagine going up against massive groups of rag tag, armed citizens as a second line of defense.
I had heard the same thing about Hitler. A few years ago a friend pointed out to me why China wouldn't invade - in a state like Michigan alone you have 400,000 hunters. Imagine going up against massive groups of rag tag, armed citizens as a second line of defense.
Good point..try PA..almost 900,000 hunters....and a "few" seriously well armed and motivated individuals who shall remain nameless 😉
I had heard the same thing about Hitler. A few years ago a friend pointed out to me why China wouldn't invade - in a state like Michigan alone you have 400,000 hunters. Imagine going up against massive groups of rag tag, armed citizens as a second line of defense.
Isnt that essentially what we face in Iraq? Given sufficient will on the part of conventional forces, an insurgency can never be successful.
