Fighting crime committed with guns

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striker55
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Fighting crime committed with guns

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I say release low level pot convictions that are in jail and put anyone who commits a crime with a gun in jail. No if, ands, or buts! These punks going around robbing people and stores or shooting up people's houses need to be taught a lesson. Our judge's are too lenient in my eyes, how many times do you see thugs out on bail committing crimes, especially with guns? Some thugs out on minimum bail amounts committing crimes.

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Build more prisons! If you go soft on drug crimes, more serious crimes will follow. Just look at SF where the city passes out needles to heroin users. It has become a biological waste land.
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OneGun wrote: Tue Jul 09, 2019 10:10 am Build more prisons! If you go soft on drug crimes, more serious crimes will follow.
You mean like selling or possessing alcohol?

Our drug laws aren't laws. I learned that from watching how we enforce them. They earn money for the states and counties through asset seizures, but they don't apply to people with money or influence.

Our drug laws aren't laws, they're just price supports for the worst kind of thugs and gangsters. Cocaine, methamphetamines, and heroin are cheap without price supports. Gangs didn't fight turf wars over the right to sell weed (and they still don't because even with the state propping up the price, the sales price doesnt justify the cost of violence). Budweiser doesn't send hitmen to whack the guys driving the Miller distribution trucks.

The animals that run the cartels murder people for sport and occasionally sacrifice human beings on the off chance that it might bring their drug mules good fortune. They write warnings to the public on the sidewalks with the organs of their victims. Their version of a hit is to massacre a whole restaurant with a machine gun armed suicide squad. They aren't a squeamish or anxious crowd.

You know what they fear? That one day, we might wise up and end the price supports that are making them rich and powerful. You dont realize it, but you are the single most important person that the cartels employ, and the best part is that your lack of understanding means that you're willing to work for free.

The law exists because we as a people choose to uphold it. Not the cops, not the courts, but the people. Laws that we refuse to enforce weaken all of the other laws.

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Re: Fighting crime committed with guns

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I'm not anti-gun so I don't think it matters what weapon they use. Aggravated robbery and aggravated assault convictions should (1) result in a heavier sentence than the base crime and (2) result in the same heavy sentence regardless of whether the criminal threatened their victim with a knife, a gun, a baseball bat, HIV infection or (in the case of Eric Swallowwell) a nuke.

However, a large prison population, especially one locked up for violent crimes, is a symptom of a broken society. In a healthy society, violent criminals would be stopped during the act by countervailing force. Stopped dead in their tracks, if necessary.
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