[Mr.Kimball]

[quote=Mr.Kimball]

I believe Oxycontin is legal. It is a controlled substance. The way it is used and distributed by most people is illegal. Kentucky is one of the few states that has wet and dry counties. Is the dry counties in this state better off financially and morally than other counties across this country. If you think they are, I got some ocean front property in Knott County I will sell you. Do you really believe that people who drink and drive are only going to be doing it because Paintsville is wet. No they would have went to the adjoining county, got drunk, and drove back anyway. I do not believe that the people who don't drink are going to magically start drinking now because it is in Paintsville. Use common sense here, the same people who drunk before are going to drink now. They are now closer to home which makes the availability of designated drivers or even walking more feasible. Blaming a group of people for a DUI death their really not responsible before is like blaming a company who makes firearms whenever someone kills someone else with a gun they made. It just doesn't make sense.

Naw, that's OK. I think I'll just move to one those progressive thinking counties such as Magoffin or Floyd, that are now bustling with all these nice restaurants since it was decided by those people that "got with the times" and voted their communities wet. Ever been to one of those fine "mega fun" and "tourist appealing" counties. I hear that a chain of Outhouse restaurants are on there way to Salyersville, Martin and Royalton. Weedoggie's what that tax revenue has done for those communities. These progressive thinking people have really turned those counties into show places in the last 15 -20 years since they have been wet. We've got a real Las Vegas just across the county line and never knew it. Lest we also forget that just across the state line we have those exciting and prosperous communities such as Fort Gay, Kermit, and Matewan that have pumped all that alcohol revenue back into their communities as well. What could we in Johnson County have possibly been thinking about all these years?

I guess you are the smart one here. :eyeroll: