Teen killed in home invasion

[casingpoint]

You pays your money and takes your chances. You don't get your money back, and it could be your last chance.

The Last Chance is a bar on the west edge of Gunnison, Colorado. I don't get by there much, but back in the day, I'd take alcohol over vegetables any day of the week.

[03Lightningrocks]

This whole idea of punishing the other fellers that he did the shrooms with is just pure unadulterated horse pucky. Unless they fed them to him with a steak and didn't mention what they were, there is no good purpose in trying to act like they forced this "poor innocent victim" to take shrooms. I get about 18 inches up past my neck in this new fangled policy of always trying to find a way of dismissing bad decision making by blaming others.

I'm thinking it would be like charging a bar for serving someone too much alcohol.
Or the drug dealer that provided the illegal substance.

To me it would be like charging everyone that had a drink with the guy who had too much alcohol and wrecked his car. You and three acquaintances go out and buy some drugs together. You split it up and hand it to the other two guys. You then get to take responsibility for what your buds do with the drugs. How about this one. You sell a gun to your neighbor. He robs a convenience store and kills the clerk. You go to jail because you sold him the gun. It all goes right back to blaming everyone but the person who does the dirty deed.

I suppose an argument could be made that in todays world, the person who is selling the drugs should be punished, but like so many other laws, this one is being taken too far. Who, after all, is the dealer. Friends scoring drugs for each other hardly qualifies as professional drug dealing. I don't suppose we know for sure if this is a case of several buds going in together and buying shrooms, or if the folks accused of being "dealers" are true dealers and are supplying shrooms to the whole county. If it is just buds scoring drugs for each other, charging them as dealers will do nothing but needlessly destroy their lives. How about we do something positive for a change? We can be sure of one thing...sending three teens to prison at the onset of their adult lives is going to turn them really dangerous. They will be out with a four or five year degree in mean and will get real serious about crime. If they are legitimate dealers of shrooms, great...throw the book at them. But it sounds a little like they were all partners in crime to me.

[tarkus]

To me it would be like charging everyone that had a drink with the guy who had too much alcohol and wrecked his car. You and three acquaintances go out and buy some drugs together. You split it up and hand it to the other two guys. You then get to take responsibility for what your buds do with the drugs. How about this one. You sell a gun to your neighbor. He robs a convenience store and kills the clerk. You go to jail because you sold him the gun. It all goes right back to blaming everyone but the person who does the dirty deed.

It's like when those loco mayors were suing gun companies, including the ones who sold guns to their police.