Go after the dealers

Just wondering,

Why are addicts being treated better than seniors and veterans? They have "wet" facilities where they can shoot up drugs, supplied with needles that they discard anywhere, thus becoming a health hazard for children and adults alike. They're supplied with Naloxone kits. What's next, a couple of 24's at an AA meeting?

I understand that addiction is a serious disease, but despite all the education on drugs, these people are still choosing their path of destruction. They have created a huge burden on paramedics, the hospital system and the RCMP. 

Why not jail the "pushers" and sentence them to "hard time"? They should be charged with murder. Can't do that though because the "Charter" protects them. Too bad the "Charter" doesn't protect the people they killed.

The felons have more rights than the victims. The law has no teeth. Why can't our 'learned' politicians put some teeth back in the judicial system? Our leaders in Ottawa and Victoria need to show the leadership they were elected to do instead of wallowing in their self importance, toeing the "party line" and posing for photo ops. The system is broken and needs to be fixed! We need compassion for the victims, not the felons. 

I really feel sorry for the mentally challenged people on the street. They have been swept under the cracks. Another cost saver for the government. Sad!

I wonder what the free housing that is being supplied will look like, judging from the mess in  the "tent cities"?

We'll probably never hear.

Lastly, I really feel sorry for the police who try to do their job but see the felons they arrest, back on the street, only to be arrested again and again. A big revolving door.

More people need to speak up on these issues.

Bob Harris, Lake Country