Drug dealers should be in prison, not on the street

By Lethbridge Herald on May 13, 2023.

Editor: 

Through Canadian statistics I have found that from 2009 to 2021 across Canada there have been 2,510 people killed through either gun violence or accidents or suicides.

That’s all of Canada. Yes all deaths are sad and maybe could have been prevented!

That does not warrant the extreme so -called gun control that’s been put on legal gun owners who took a course, passed an exam, were checked out by local, provincial and federal police forces so they could buy, sell and own a gun. 

These people are the ones being punished for owning a firearm. 

These people are hunters, farmers and sport shooters who go to competitions to compete against other shooters and obey the laws that were already in place. 

The criminal who uses guns in the commission of a crime could care less about the laws – that’s why they are criminals.

Now for the other problem – drugs: 

According to the news a couple weeks ago almost 35,000 people have died from drug overdoses in all of Canada!

Also on the news – from 2016 to 2022, in Alberta alone almost 6,999 people have died here in our province. 

So which one is being targeted? Guns control which is useless for the criminal element. 

Why are the politicians not doing something about drug dealers? 

They basically kill people and get away with it. 

They are only charged with trafficking and not the very least with manslaughter.

We need politicians to change the laws about these killers who are selling drugs sometimes laced with other drugs to make the drug more potent, which in a lot of drug overdoses kills kills the drug addict. 

Isn’t that murder?

 If the laws were changed, drug dealers would go to prison instead of being released to go and sell more drugs to kill more people. 

Dale. E. Finley 

Lethbridge