"It's always too soon to talk about gun control"

[hazard]

Good luck getting that much money when you've a conviction on your record.

And it's even worse than a Jim Crow law still on the record; due to the manner in which the War on Drugs is performed it also hits another potential voter base hard; marijuana users tend to be hippies, and hippies tend to be leftist and concerned with environmental issues. Both things that the Republican party either doesn't like or likes to ignore.