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.
How often do you hear stories out of major tourism places like Florida regarding foreigners being targetted? Criminals have to think twice before they go after someone who's armed
This shows only the problem of guns - criminals will choose the weekest point. What's the consequence of this? Everyone has to carry a gun at every fucking single place. Who has enough money can buy himself enough protection and we see the results - crime still exists, it's just concentrated in a few places and guns won't change anything about it.
If a criminal is forced into hard labor in a system that supports PENANCE, he'll think twice before committing some crime against another human or society at large. If they think they're going to get their wrists slapped or suffer a mild punishment of 3 meals a day, cable tv, free college education, free weight room, etc, what provides the impetus for them to act in a legal manner? It sounds nice to think we can rehabilitate people but something like 75% of all parolees violate their parole and go back to prison
What's wrong about education? What lots of people don't realize is that jail doesn't rehabilitate anyone. If he goes back into the same environment, he will show exactly the same behaviour as before. If you want to fight do something about society, take care that there is no reason to commit a crime. I know that's not easy, but it's the only way. Guns are no answer!
Sure, we ended up not needing the gun in this case when our lives were threatened but what about people who've received anonymous death threats and the police refuse to help? Should they be forced to keep their gun locked away where they can't get to it?
Someone who is determined to kill you will kill you and if he knows you have a gun, he will take it into account.
What happens when a (illegally obtained) gun-wielding thug breaks into your house at night to rob you? "hold on Mr. Robber, let me take my gunlock off before you shoot me." Even if the crook didn't have a gun, he could just as likely have a knife, baseball bat, pipe, whatever. Millions of crimes are PREVENTED each year because of the threat of a gun wielding defender.
And how many lifes are taken because of this? If the robber knows that he has to expect weapons, he will just "protect" himself better as well. Where shall this end? Is some property really more worth than a life?
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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.
This shows only the problem of guns - criminals will choose the weekest point. What's the consequence of this? Everyone has to carry a gun at every fucking single place. Who has enough money can buy himself enough protection and we see the results - crime still exists, it's just concentrated in a few places and guns won't change anything about it.
If a criminal is forced into hard labor in a system that supports PENANCE, he'll think twice before committing some crime against another human or society at large. If they think they're going to get their wrists slapped or suffer a mild punishment of 3 meals a day, cable tv, free college education, free weight room, etc, what provides the impetus for them to act in a legal manner? It sounds nice to think we can rehabilitate people but something like 75% of all parolees violate their parole and go back to prison
What's wrong about education? What lots of people don't realize is that jail doesn't rehabilitate anyone. If he goes back into the same environment, he will show exactly the same behaviour as before. If you want to fight do something about society, take care that there is no reason to commit a crime. I know that's not easy, but it's the only way. Guns are no answer!
Someone who is determined to kill you will kill you and if he knows you have a gun, he will take it into account.
What happens when a (illegally obtained) gun-wielding thug breaks into your house at night to rob you? "hold on Mr. Robber, let me take my gunlock off before you shoot me." Even if the crook didn't have a gun, he could just as likely have a knife, baseball bat, pipe, whatever. Millions of crimes are PREVENTED each year because of the threat of a gun wielding defender.
And how many lifes are taken because of this? If the robber knows that he has to expect weapons, he will just "protect" himself better as well. Where shall this end? Is some property really more worth than a life?