🚀 go-pugleaf

>We have about doubled the prison population in this country in the
>last ten or so years.  Built a lot of prisons.  Spent billions.
>Emptied the mental hospitals to find money to do it (indirectly,
>but that's about what happened).

Well we have put a lot of non-violent offenders in prison. But we
are releasing many violent offenders all the time. Some 90% of
those convicted of violent crimes are repeat offenders. Now they must
have been released if they were on the outside to commit those
crimes. We are NOT keeping the violent offenders locked up. Studies
have shown that the chances of doing significant time for a violent
crime are VERY low.

>
>I sure don't feel any safer.  Seems to me that all we did with
>stiffer sentences and more prisons was increase the supply of
>criminals with darn little effect on violent crime.  Has it been
>cut by half?  By even 10%?  Do you feel any safer?  I sure don't.
>
>As for our wonderful handgun culture, I think it very interesting
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

What a wonderfully PC term. Did you come up with that one yourself?

>that I am more likely to be blown away by a 13 year old in 
>Minneapolis than I am to be blown up by the IRA in London and

You have a source fir this I presume. Also consider that you are even
MORE likely to be blown away in DC where handguns are banned.

>probably even in Belfast.  True, no one can keep the IRA disarmed,
>but trying does seem to help a little. . .

Completely irrelevnt.

>
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>   Larry W. Loen        |  My Opinions are decidedly my own, so please
>                        |  do not attribute them to my employer

				mike