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They apprehend and process about a quarter million illegals per month, not counting the gotaways which were noticed but not apprehended, as well as those nobody knows about. About ten to fifteen apprehensions monthly are on the terror watch list. So it's not unreasonable to conclude that many on the terror watch list are sneaking in every month.

 

the right says the MSM is fake news

 

Yes, because our roadways in general are not conducive to bicycles on the road. That is what the sidewalks are for, but the county does not improve those sidewalks when it gets full of mini potholes, crevices, and so forth. I have had an easier time riding a bike on a mountain trail than on some sidewalks in the area of where I live. But if you do ride a bicycle. And motorbikes are pretty much ignored in my opinion. But I have a midsize car and where I live, even that is small in comparison to what others drive. I have seen a Hummer, a $125k vehicle, drive some 95 mph on the interstate, in the center lane, at one time. the driver was so bad, I had to stop and call the DPS that the driver was driving recklessly. Gave the description of the vehicle and it is not hard to pick that one out of a crowd.

But my point is that for most people who obtain a driver's license, at best they get two or three weeks' worth of "driving school" that really does not prepare them for most, not even some, of the conditions they will face, among other things. And if you look at Asia or Europe, or even Mexico, those that do get or obtain driver's licenses and are natives of that country, spend $4k and almost a year before they can officially obtain their driver's license. And if they are here, they are much better drivers, IMO, than most of the idiots on the road. But all of this goes back to we are an impatient society now, and driving, or the lack thereof, is a symptom of that impatience we have.

 

that wasn't the point in which this reply was based on. Oh well, maybe you will figure it out one day.

You are outdated here. Even neurosurgeons and nueroscientists study the chemicals now in the brain. There is great discussion how much, if any, does serotonin plays in depression for instance. Somewho you don't think so even though there is some evidence to the contrary. And the rest can be said with pretty much with addition and other avenues.

Are you trying to insult yourself here?

The only one who has assumptions here is you. Obviously, the peer reviewed research material out there, available on the internet by the way, disagrees with you and I will leave it at that.

 

Because they (drugs and illegals) are pouring into the nation at unprecedented rates. Not a difficult concept.

 

Opium and cocaine are shipped here, but most of the illicit drugs, mostly meth, and marijuana, assuming the state has not decriminalized the substance, and the designer drugs are all made here in the USA. Fentanyl can be made here but is made in Mexico, China, and India, and it is not just on the Southern border. Try the shipping containers in US ports or US mail.

 

And yet the amount coming across the border illegally has skyrocket under Biden's wide open borders.

 

Most drugs are caught inside the US and may not have come through the border. We recently caught a submarine off the coast of Florida by the US Coast Guard that was carrying some $52 million worth of cocaine. We have seen marijuana in trunks of vehicles on US highways caught with millions of drugs in them. But most are not caught at point of inspection or even know if they are coming in through the border. That is an assumption here. The ones that are caught on the border is in both the NORTH and SOUTH borders, not just the south. For instance, one of the largest drug busts in US history happened at the Philadelphia Packer Marine terminal, in Pennsylvania, far away from any US northern or southern border.

 

Right…because of demand. Not a difficult concept

 

the only reason you brought up Rush Limbaugh is to s*** on his character because you don't like his politics that's fine I just don't care.

I'm not interested in your partisanship.

no I'm not you just misunderstood.

I never said they didn't that's called neurology. Yes neuroscientists study neurology. I wasn't outdated I was correct.

Neurotransmitters such as dopamine serotonin gaba and so forth are part of neurology.

did you have to stand up to pull this twaddle out of your ass?

You don't get to tell me what I think you don't know.

no I'm pointing out that me disagreeing with your big headedness and ignorance isn't denial well it's not denial of anything that shouldn't be denied it's denial of ignorance.

I doubt you could list any.

you're just saying these words because you heard someone smarter than you say them. Your ignorance does not reflect any research I'm sorry.

yeah you'll leave it at an unsupported claim and tuck your tail between your legs and slink away because that's all you have left.

Don't leave me I so miss your straw man fallacies and false assumptions it brings so much character to debate. I also love when people try to mask their ignorance by saying peer-reviewed research. That's always very very funny.

But I guess I'll just have to wait till the next time you get to bee in your bonnet

 

Did you try to intentionally ignore my entire point? Reckless drivers are a far bigger daily threat than guns will ever be

 

I don't know if your aware of this but other people are not clones of you.

 

It's an inherent quality of homo sapiens that they like and seek out mind altering substances. Some homo sapiens have decided it's up to them to tell others which mind altering substances they are and are not allowed to use, but that seems wrong to me... My body, my choice.

Not to mention the only way to make illegal drugs safer (not necessarily safe) is to legalize them, which insures they are grown, made, distributed, and sold by legitimate businesses who use this thing called 'quality control', and who use lawyers in lieu of bullets to settle disputes. Plus, it will eventually put the cartels and street gangs out of business, which will likely cause overall violence in the country to fall as well. We tried prohibition already, and should have learned our lesson when people turned to illegal sources, and the mob got rich by supplying speakeasys and other underground bars and the like. Not to mention people going blind (and worse) from bathtub gin they whipped up at home.

We tried it, it failed HARD, and we actually learned our lesson and gave up trying to ban it. The same needs to happen with so-called illegal drugs, and will, eventually. But the sooner, the better, and we really should have learned the lesson from prohibition that "Prohibition II: The Drug War" would fail just as spectacularly. You cannot legislate away our species desire to get high.

 

Well aware

 

I think all drugs should be legalized. But that still doesn’t change the fact that no one is “forced” to take illegal drugs. It’s a choice. End of story.

 

The difference being those people will have chosen their fate by choosing to use drugs versus the students who did not choose to be killed while attending school. 100,000 idiots dying because they got themselves addicted to drugs is not worse than even 1 school student dying while just trying to get an education.

 

Exactly right. Seems a simple concept yet many are struggling to understand it.

 

They made a mistake and died because of it. Young people tend to make mistakes as part of the process of growing up. Unfortunately, there is an epidemic of mistakes being encoluraged by the Mexican Cartels and the Chinese.

 

Yep, maybe you can say they made a mistake, but you can't say they made a mistake without knowing the consequences. Kid or not, this is real life where making stupid decisions can kill you, and when you make said stupid decision knowing full well it can kill you, I really don't have much sympathy for you. Maybe for your family, but not for you. This is 2023, nobody can say they don't know hard drugs are dangerous. It'd be like trying to claim you didn't know cigarettes were bad for you.

 

I doubt that any of them expected to die because of it. You should talk to someone who lost a loved one to fentanyl. It would likely change your perspective.

I don't know of anyone who smoked a single cigarette and died because of it.

 

When it comes to these types of choices it seems there are people who want to make excuses and blame everything other than the person who made the actual choice. Apparently personal responsibility isn't something some people believe in.

 

Does that mean you are OK with fentanyl and other dangerous drugs being brought across the border and killing a hundred thousand people per year?

 

They also don't seem to understand the concept of supply and demand. The only reason illegal drugs keep flooding into the US is because people keep buying (demand) illegal drugs.

 

Let me know when you figure out how to keep teen agers from making stupid mistakes.

 

Hopefully you aren't looking for consistency and common sense from a politician.