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Death Penalty ?

Former President Donald Trump’s asserted that drug dealers should receive the death penalty. He made this statement during his press conference announcing he would be running for reelection in 2024.

Can those of you who are anti-Trump separate this statement from the person who made it? Can you evaluate this assertion at face value?

Just to set the table:

Almost 40,000 Americans died in action in Korea, and more than 100,000 were wounded.

Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File of the Defense Casualty Analysis System (DCAS) Extract Files contains records of 58,220 U.S. military fatal casualties of the Vietnam War.

On D-Day, more than 9,000 Allied soldiers were killed or wounded in those first 24 hours.

About 298,000 Americans died in WW2.

For WW1 official figures of military war deaths listed by the US Dept. of Defense for the period ending Dec. 31, 1918 are 116,516; which includes 53,402 battle deaths and 63,114 non combat deaths.

In 2021, nearly 108,000 people died of drug overdoses; 71,000 of whom died from fentanyl or fentanyl-related substances.

Thus far in 2022, more than 75,000 Americans have died from overdose of synthetic opioids, mainly fentanyl.

Just to be clear … in 2021 more U.S. citizens have died as a consequence of fentanyl than died in the Korean War or in the Viet Nam War.

The deaths due to fentanyl in 2021 & 2022 combined outnumber the total U.S. deaths in WW1

If the present pace continues, it will not be long before the fentanyl deaths outnumber the U.S. deaths in WW2.

In some places in the U.S. a person convicted of one first degree murder charge can be sentenced to death. So if a drug dealer is responsible for hundreds of fentanyl deaths, is it unreasonable that that drug dealer receive the death penalty? What about one hundred? … what about fifty? what about ten? … what about one, is that one was your son or daughter?

Whereas I do not agree with everything that Trump says, but I do agree with his assertion about penalties for drug dealers who deal in fentanyl.

11/25/22

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