What is currently legal but you think should be illegal?

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Alcohol left the arena of legitimate distribution and taxation and was a gift to organised crime. I really don't want to see those prohibitionist days here in the UK.

Which is why the likes of Alcohol Concern must have their funding removed. Not because they'll bring those days about, but because they'll make life increasingly unpleasant for drinkers.

So you don't think people should be able to find legal ways to pay less tax?

Thanks for the compliment.

Vigilans? Seriously? I thought you would know better than that. Hollow points are much better than FMJ's. Bullets do not instantly drop people. There is no guaranteed number of times you can shoot someone til they're no longer a threat. Generally the only effective way of stopping someone is shooting at the head or at vital organs. Hollow points expand into the body so that it dumps more energy into the target, generating more shock and tissue damage in its path. This means it is more effective at stopping someone than an FMJ. FMJ's just go through you so you would either have to have a really good aim and actually hit vital organs or the brain stem or you would have to give the target more holes to bleed out of. Also the shock that hollow points generate are very effective for severing arteries.

Alcohol
wreaks so many families

it should be illegal for the government to interfere in the lives of their constituents.

For example, if I wanted to drop LSD or smoke a joint in front of a cop, I should have that right.

The police should be the first responders to accidents and shootings and stuff, NOT to tell people what to do and not what to do.

Here is Australia I would say travelling greater than 20 KPH (12 MPH) below the speed limit on open country roads should definitely be illegal, they cause more accidents than just about every one else as they frustrate drivers who have to wait on windy country roads before they can safely pass.

-Women who don't shave their legs or armpits.

-Screamo music

-Wearing striped shirts and plaid shorts together.

-Making twerking videos. Especially male twerking videos.

There aren't very many things I would personally make illegal, as I have a fairly libertarian view on most things, but I would ban predatory, unfair, and exploitative business practices, things like hidden fees, misleading advertisements, and obscuring important information with fine print. I would also ban patent trolling, which is when a company patents a fairly common feature of one of their products just so that they can compete unfairly.

Oh man, where to BEGIN?

Tobacco, alcohol, public places that allow screeching bratty children, stupidity, obnoxiousness, bullying, bad movies, bad TV shows, bad advertisements, reality shows, pit bulls, paparazzi, racism, sexism, telemarketers, anti-vacs, religion.

Of course making something illegal doesn't mean people won't still do it. They don't care that it's wrong. They internally justify their crimes, like shoplifting - "Oh, the stores rip us off with their high prices", "It's not like I killed somebody", "It doesn't cost much anyway" - and if they're caught they're only sorry that they didn't get away with it.

Although I heard in some places it's not considered a crime to steal food if you're literally starving and too poor to buy. There are people in Canada and the US who go without food, which is hard to believe because you're always hearing how fat and disgusting we all are.

I do not get how anyone old enough to go into a store that would sell such things...could possibly not know that stuff is dangerous, or at the very least has possible risks. People really can be stupid, but making it illegal probably would not help if there is still demand it will just be created/sold illegally and people who end up using it will just face legal prosecution on top of any damage the substance might do to them. It would make more sense to spread awareness about the dangers and legalize weed nation wide since there are quite a few people who settle for that since weed is illegal who'd probably just smoke weed if there wasn't the risk of legal penalties...or if they are trying to get a job and don't want to fail a test they might switch to that.

That would be terrible ...suppose there would still be tea and coffee....but sometimes that just doesn't cut it, I'd miss energy drinks if they where illegal.

It ought to be illegal for Congresscritters to exempt themselves from laws that everyone else must follow. For example, members of Congress reportedly can legally trade on information learned as a result of them performing their Congressional duties.

I almost agree with the last 3....As for the first one why should it be up to the government what one does with the hair on their body? That is far too invasive, how about they make it illegal for guys not to shave their face.

Energy drinks containing taurine used to be illegal in Canada, then they got approved through a clever loophole sometime around 2005, but when Health Canada finally caught on in 2013, they decided to cap the amount of caffeine they were allowed to legally contain.

NOS used to have 250mg of caffeine in a 473ml can here, then the makers reduced it to 190 in 2011, then it was again reduced to what I presume is the legal maximum of 170mg in 2013, making it not much stronger than Monster. Around that time, NOS also discontinued its 650ml bottles in Canada, presumably because a 650ml container isn't large enough to count as more than one serving, and it would have too much caffeine in one container to be legal even with the new, weak formulation.

Monster also made the formula they put in the larger 710ml cans stupidly weak compared to the normal size cans, because a container has to be at least 750ml to count as more than one serving.

Strangely, energy shots aren't as regulated, probably because they're not as attractive to younger consumers.

I used to love energy drinks, and they were a HUGE special interest of mine at one time, but I found that they exacerbate my anxiety too much and make me really fidgety, so I mainly stick to coffee and tea nowadays. I'll drink the occasional energy drink if I need more of a boost though.



Amen. The authorities should have to follow the exact same rules civilians follow. I'm sick of politicians, police, and other people in positions of authority abusing their power.

Why?