Batesville Arkansas, Vine Street 10:10 pm, Larry Miller is out on his nightly walk around the block when he heard a loud thump as if someone had jumped off his front porch and then a black males hand slipped around his neck from behind and slammed him into the side of his suburban into consciousness. He awoke to realize the man had stolen fifty dollars and his prescription hydrocodone. There has been addiction all through out the ages to a number of things, but in this day and age addiction runs rampant be it alcohol, marijuana, crack, or just everyday medication.
And with these addictions comes violence as well, Larry Miller's case as a point, just an innocent man trying to get by and treat his ailment when he is attacked in a violent fit of rage by a man just trying to get his high. It dissapoints me, so much violence, so many innocent people hurt, so many dead. Over what? For what purpose? To just feel good, to make life easier to live, to take away there worries. The very things there are fighting so hard to get and take there problems away are just making more problems and the very fact that they fight for it just makes things worst. There needs to be a solution to this endless cycle of violence and addiction.
I believe that there is a solution to this and that we must act on it. The goverment trys to stop the use and trafficing of drugs but they are not doing enough and they are still getting away with it. There needs to be tighter drug laws on medication and tighter border securty and importing laws to prevent importation of illegal narcotics. As much as people will hate it, it is neccasary to end this cycle of violence.
-Man was strangled for meds-Batesville Daily Guard-Submitted Reports-Tuesday September 25, 2012-
