BLAME USERS FOR DRUG WAR VIOLENCE

The writer of a Dec. 7 letter to the editor said Selby would be alive today
if drugs were legal. By that thinking, we should legalize all crime so no
police officers would be killed in the line of duty.

People who use drugs enable drug dealers to engage in murderous activities.
Without drug users, there would be no drug dealers. From weekend
recreational users to hard-core junkies, users provide dealers with the
money to buy the guns that kill police officers. Blame the lawbreakers, not
the law enforcers, and definitely not the laws.

If you use a little marijuana every once in awhile, you help the dealers in
their way of life. The police can't do it by themselves. Citizens need to
pull together and get the drugs out of their houses, their neighborhoods,
their cities, their states, and eventually their country. I know that will
never happen, but it's nice to think that if it did, Selby would not have
been on that porch putting his life on the line for us.

Mark Miller

Memphis