Maxprop wrote:

"Martin Baxter" wrote in message
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Maxprop wrote: They
can sleep well at night with the deluded belief that they did something
"good."


Well, that sounds a lot better than going to sleep with the abysmally
apathetic defeatist attitude that nothing can be done.

I never implied nothing can be done. The answers have been her all along.
So have some worthwhile laws, if only they'd be enforced instead of plea
bargained away every time a shooter goes to court.

I think that's just another right wing fallacy, "We need to lock more
people up for longer!" The US already incarcerates something on the
order of one quarter of the total of all people incarcerated on the
planet. You have 2,320,000 in jails and prisons, include parolees and
probationers and the total correctional population is over 7,000,000!
You lead the world in incarceration rate, 701 per 100,000, China is down
at 117 with 1.51 million behind bars. These statistics are actually
somewhat misleading as the rate of violent crime (homicide, rape,
robbery and assault) have been *declining* steadily since 1993. Most of
these folks (in the US that is) are there because of "The War On Drugs".

Perhaps the violent crime is declining because so many of those who
would commit the crimes to obtain money for the drugs are in the
slammer?

Cheers
Marty