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Re: CGI's Liam77: New Senate Bill Would Legali....

Legalization versus Decriminalization

They first criminalize something that should have never been made illegal in the first place. And now they have us all fooled into thinking that they are doing us a big favor by their proposed action of legalization.

But legalization is NOT what we want.
Decriminalization is what we should be demanding!!!

And the big difference can be seen in the following:

Decriminalize – to decriminalize an act means to remove all legal prohibitions and to abolish criminal penalties for committing the act. This provides total freedom for people to commit the act with complete impunity as it is no longer a crime and no punishment is attached to the act.

Legalize – to make legal or lawful; to authorize or sanction by law – (but legalization involves the introduction of a new set of regulations and the requirement to follow and obey the regulations that are put in place to implement the legalization and which of course also means having to submit to whatever licensing requirements and/or to the payment of fees or taxes that are imposed by the new regulations).

And so just like our right to keep and bear arms has been made "legal" (in most of the U.S. at least) so that we can now own and carry a gun provided of course that we first submit to the government's intrusion (and infringement) by applying for and being granted a license and by also agreeing to pay the required fee or tax. And so the owning and carrying of a gun by an individual citizen is no longer a recognized God given Right that is protected by the Constitution, but rather it has evolved into a government granted privilege that is subject to any and all regulations the government wishes to impose upon this privilege now and in the future.

And so let us never forget that the government in reality has nothing to give to us for in order for government to have anything to give to us it must first take something away from us. Everything that we get from government represents but a partial return of what was once entirely ours.