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In article <390omp$ods@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com>, Vampy69@ix.netcom.com (Vampy) writes:
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> The solution which had been the greatest deterent to violent crime was
> punishment and EXECUTION of the worst offenders.  Prior to the mental
> lapse brought on by the sixties, violent criminals were incarcerated
> and PUNISHED by hard labor.  Murderers were EXECUTED.  Today, violent
> criminals are parolled, if not pardoned, and murderers receive reduced
> sentences, are coddled and cared for while imprisoned, and given both
> liberties and comforts during their sentence.  WHAT A DETERENT!

Huh?  The prison population has DOUBLED in the past TEN years, yet
crime (especially violent) continues to rise (rose by 6% last year).
Texas, the state with the most executions has the highest per-capita
prison population of any STATE.  Almost 0.6%.  Washington D.C. leads
the list.  Many criminologists believe that longer and more prison 
sentences have NOTHING to do with crime.

> Take away guns so they cannot commit crime?  Even countries that HAVE
> NO GUNS have crime.  There are countries, like Germany, where everyone
> has a gun (as the U.S.) but the crime rate is incredibly small.  Why?

Since when does Germany have gun rights?  I lived there for 3+ years
and never met anyone that owned a gun or ever saw a gun shop.  Lots
of hookers though.  The only people with guns are cops and they sometimes 
carry niffty little Uzis.

> Because they never changed their judicial system from Crime and 
> PUNISHMENT to the CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM which seems to only find
> the time to give justice to criminals and protect their 'rights'
> after they've Sh*t on the rights of their victims.  I have NO sympathy
> for these people.  (Being a paramedic who has worked downtown Dallas,
> I've met more of them than I cared to).

 I had a friend who was a fireman/paremidic in south Dallas.  He said 
he much preffered fire duty to paramedic duty because of the way the
people treated him.  But think of the child born in those neighborhoods.
Suppose you took that same child and raised him by a North Dallas family.
There would be less chance of him taking a criminal path because he
has opportunities available to him.  In south Dallas he has less 
opportunities therefore less deterent to keep him away from crime.  Like
many teens, young adults he may feel invincable.  The threat of prison
or execution is little deterent.

Like many I am glad when some low-life murdering scum get gassed or
executed.  But that was treating the symptom and not the cause.