The Gun Control Formula Narrows Your Healthcare Options
After canvassing local chain drug and grocery stores, we’ve found out that you can no longer buy iodine to treat small cuts and skin abrasions. The reason is that meth dealers use it to make their product. This ban is a fairly recent development.
A law abiding citizen can’t perform simple first aid at home because somebody else might use the product illegally. Same for decongestants, but at least I was able to buy them after registering at the pharmacy desk.
So we have registration and confiscation, all in the name of the war on drugs.
The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)–part of Holder’s Department of Justice–had a budget of $2B this fiscal year, down from a high of $2.6B in 2009. But it’s still 31 times the original 1972 budget.
Don’t you feel much safer?
Oooo, oooo, oooo! Water and baking soda are also used to make drugs!!!! So is dirt and fertilizer!!!! Outlaw air!!!! Drug makers use AIR to make drugs!!!
What is this? I’m posting too quickly?
When I was a kid we had paragoric in the house. That one was banned a long time ago. It’s not as if there was a lot of opium in it. I think it was just part of a zero tolerence move that came from Nixon. I’m getting really tired of zero tolerence movements.
I must have missed the gun control connection here…
The same formula: We must ban [xxxxx] because somebody might use it for criminal acts. End result: more regulation, bigger bureaucracy, less freedom. Consider it the Feudalism Formula. Gun control is but one symptom of the disease, but the goal is to render the masses helpless and controllable.