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Originally Posted by RainMaker
I don't know how you can feel that way about environmental issues but not others that can impact a neighboring state. Why is smog somehow more important than automatic machine guns?
That's not saying everything should be done on a federal level. States should have the right to make some decisions for themselves. But it is the federal governments job to protect states from other states whether it be environmental or something else. If Wisconsin legalizes hand grenades, that causes problems in Illinois and Minnesota where it is illegal. The actions of Wisconsin in that case harm other states.
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Environmental damage can impact us forever, some extra drugs and guns around is a problem that can be managed. We have the lowest violent crime rate in generations and guns and drugs aren't hard to get now.
And what states do you think would legalize heroin and hand grenades? That goes back to that numbers thing. Would you have the same worries if we had fewer states with more people in them? You have no worry about a 300 million person entity legalizing bad stuff, but what if it was two 150 million states, east and west? Where's that cutoff to where we fear a state's power to do stuff?