ues. We are at war with the drug cartels around the world. The country is now debating the legalization of drugs as a means to ending the madness. The restrictions on firearms did not have the intended affect on crime expected by millions of Americans. America is now turning to the real cause of the crime, the dealers, and the users of drugs. The failure of more firearm restrictions opened the door for the debate over the legalization of drugs. Kurt Schmoke states, " The violence brought about by the black market in drugs is attributable in large part to the fact that we have chosen to make criminals out of millions of people who have a disease." The idealism that "we" as a society have made criminals is flawed. The vast majority of Americans choose not to use drugs. The legalization of drugs will shift our resources from enforcement to treatment. This is only a shift in policy, not a solution to the problem. William Bennett points out, " Even limited experiments in drug legalization have shown that when drugs are more widely available, addiction sky rockets." Drug addiction and the black market drug trade has been, and will be with us for the reminder of our lifetime. Drugs such as heroin, and marijuana have been widespread since the fifties. At the same time, the availability of firearms was much less restricted. The indiscriminate killing in our streets is not due to drug addiction, disease, or gun availability. There seems to be a complete breakdown of the moral fabric of a society. Recently we have been witnesses to an alarming trend among our young people. In Colorado, Arkansas, Pennsylvania, and small towns across America, children are committing the ultimate crime against humanity. Americas' children have become heartless, calculating assassins. In order to understand the unimaginable actions of other individuals, we clamor over one another to place causation to the fact that children have become killers. Something caused these ...
