Look, I personally put my gun away as soon as I sit down to have a drink. I, personally, don’t think handling firearms interacts well with any psychoactive substances. They affect judgement, perception, impulse control, coordination. I don’t do it. That’s my choice.
As others have noted, the 2A doesn’t say one fucking word about drugs or alcohol. Just like it has no provision saying “as long as they are properly trained, and jump through all the government hoops”. Nor, for that matter, does it mention anything about felons, violent people, or Zoroastrians, FFS.
And anyone who thinks that ex-felons don’t acquire guns, because they are “prohibited persons” is either lying (or lying to themselves) or unutterably stupid. Active criminals, even those with prior felony convictions (including crimes involving firearms) acquire guns ALL THE TIME – on the black market, steal them from people, or even *gasp* make the damn things.
Prohibition actually INCREASED the consumption of alcohol in the US. The “War on Drugs” certainly has done nothing to reduce drug use in the US (but, like Prohibition, it sure as hell has enriched organized crime). Outlawing prostitution certainly eliminated it, didn’t it? Heck, you NEVER see hookers hanging out in the skeevy areas of any metropolitan downtown, do you?
The only people ‘prevented’ from accessing firearms by such nonsense as NICS checks, ‘prohibited person’ classification, etc. are those either too stupid, or too law-abiding, to tell the Karens to take a flying fornication at a rolling deep-fried breakfast pastry, and just hitting up the black market, stealing a gun, or making the damn thing.
Just like Prohibition, outlawing prostitution, outlawing gambling, and the War on Drugs have done literally NOTHING to control any of those things. It distresses me that we have become a nation of pearl-clutching Karens.
Just like “shall not be infringed” is a thing, “you can’t legislate morality” is a thing. A whole bunch of people need to wake up and smell the coffee. Including some on this forum.
AARRGGGHHH! If you’ve got nothing better to do than retire to your fainting couch over the possibility that someone, somewhere, owns a gun and dared to smoke a joint? You seriously need to find a hobby.
