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You should be in favor of alcohol prohibition then, because a drunk gun user is far, far more dangerous than a high one.

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I am in favor of people not mixing alcohol and guns, yes. But I didn't say I was in favor of marijuana prohibition, so your conclusion does not follow at all from what I said.

> ... a drunk gun user is far, far more dangerous than a high one.

Source? I could argue that, due to pot still being illegal most places, there are more people drunk than there are high. One would expect therefore that there are more gun mishaps involving drunks than people who are high. If you know of any reasonably rigorous studies that get down to rates per capita per episode of getting drunk/high, I'd be interested in a reference.

I think we agree on this, though: If you are going to drink or get high, stay away from guns. If you're going to have guns, stay away from booze and pot...

There's plenty of evidence that alcohol leads many to aggressive and violent behavior and a fair amount of evidence that pot has the opposite effect. I think that's reason enough to belief that a drunk gun user is apt to be more dangerous than a high (on weed) one.

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