Re:jamie, jamie, jamie (Score 1)

The genie is already out of the bottle... there is no way you're going to eliminate guns from the hands of criminals in the US so the best thing to do is to have an educated and armed populace to defend themselves.

That's giving up and I don't want to live in a place of constant war. Search the web for nonviolent defense and educate people about that. It has been practiced in that past and has shown to be very effective. Of course it's not as easy as using a gun.

We're too easy on criminals today... instead of making them pay for committing a crime, we treat them like they're the victim.

Actually they are victims in a certain sense. The problem it's used as an excuse, where it's not. It should be the reason the understand and fight the cause. It's far too easy to blame someone else.

You're living in some socialist utopian fallacy if you think this is even possible. Humans have shown time and time again the willingness to commit a crime even if there is no reason to commit one.

I'm quite realistic that it's not possible today. But I understand the human being as being who is able to learn, that's what brought us here. We just had the industrial revolution, that created huge concentrations of people. Now it's time to learn how to live together. The old behaviour of the survival of the fittest doesn't work anymore.

Make someone think twice about having to do hard time for committing a crime and keep the prisoners locked up for the full term of their sentence and suddenly the desire to commit crime will plummet.

You will hide the problem, but you will never solve it and it will always find a new way to show up again. You only raised the barrier to commit the crime, but you don't remove the cause of the crime.