>>Yes, and when one avenue is closed to the crim, another is found. Poor
>>people's living standards don't get better just because better locks and
>>car
>>alarms are invented. For many of the underclasses crime is all they know
>>how to do, and they will continue doing it despite what you do to try and
>>stop them.
>
> For non-drug related crimes that is correct.
So for drug-related crimes that is not correct? The people who make money
dealing drugs will not find another criminal source of revenue if drugs are
legalised?
> If drugs were affordable *without* stealing,
> crimes of acquisition by drug addicts would practically disappear.
Has it not sunk in yet that the cost isn't the issue? The issue is that the
drug has lost people their jobs so they don't have any money to spend.
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