Richard Feldman, President of the Independent Firearm Owners Association, Inc. writes:
Gun rights activists are generally perceived as coming from the political right while marijuana reformers are typically thought of as belonging to the political left . Ironically, if they can get past their reflexive distrust of each other, the two groups would discover that their pursuit of civil liberties is quite similar. …
He then supports this argument with some interesting and seeming valid points. Finally:
I believe the time has come for activists across the political spectrum to join forces with marijuana reform campaigns in order to protect our civil liberties. … that gun activists [mut] protect our own 2nd Amendment liberties by helping others protect their rights to be treated like adults, thereby decreasing violence in the country and lessening calls for gun control.
By ending drug prohibition we have a merging of the right and left down the pro-freedom, independent center of the road.
Feldman partly ruins his attempt to reach across the political spectrum by blaming it all on Obama, but that is to be expected, I suppose.
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Given the arguments I was having with a person running a podcast called ‘Guns and Weed’, I am perhaps less surprised at this. The core of the argument was ‘anti-statist’ and there was a lot of fringe libertarian and some ‘sovereign person’ arguments as well.
I was unfriended by insisting that statism and slavery are actually two different things (and to a lesser extent by also arguing that taxation and theft are two different things as well).
I suspect this ‘libertarian overlap’ is where you will find the bulk of people who want complete legalization of both firearms and drugs.
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Think it over, he makes a compelling case.
… well, then there are these guys I knew in the Arizona Dessert who seemed to mix pot and guns in clever and created ways. At high speed, usually.