DRUGS DON'T KILL AND DRUG LAWS DO? PLEASE!

Argyle -- A letter printed in your paper on March 30 castigated the
official press release about the recent shootings in Lafayette County
for "clouding and...mitigating the tragedy." The letter writer
stated, "It is irrelevant whether the man suspected of the shooting
was growing marijuana. ..." He added that such information "had no
place in the facts of the incident."

Yet, two paragraphs later, the letter writer informs us that "The
true blame lies entirely with the real trigger puller -- the
Department of Justice and its convoluted drug laws."

Apparently the letter writer would have us believe that drugs had
nothing to do with the deaths, but that the drug laws did. In other
words, it is those who make the laws rather than those who break the
laws who are responsible for crimes.

Why stop short? If we remove the laws against breaking into houses
and shooting people, I suppose none of this would have happened. It's
obvious that the guns weren't doing all the smoking.