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On 29 Oct 1994, Tom G wrote:

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> Questions:  
> 
> Do you (or anyone else who wants to respond) support increasing
> the rate of incarceration even more than it has been?

What means "rate of incarceration"?

> Do you believe this helps reduce violent crime?

Well, a criminal in prison isn't going to be breaking into people's 
houses, or robbing convenience stores, or...

> More generally, what should be done to reduce the criminal use of guns?

How about "sure and certain" punishment? You are aware, are you not, that 
many first-time drug possession charges are resulting in ten-year, 
no-parole sentences, while the average time served for murder has gone 
down to 5.2 years? That paroled felons are legally restricted from owning 
or carrying firearms, but that this is rarely, if ever prosecuted, and 
that if it is, the sentence runs concurrently with other incarceration, 
therefore having no net effect?

I would support a serious review of parole laws, and I would support 
requiring sentences for multiple crimes to be served consecutively, not 
concurrently.

I also support the end of the War on (Some) Drugs, which has led to the 
situation I mentioned earlier.

whughes@lonestar.utsa.edu (William Hughes) | In memory of 85 un-charged,
UTSA doesn't agree with me. They're wrong. | un-convicted victims of the U.S.
St. Dismas' Infirmary for the Incurably    | government in Waco, Texas -
Informed [_Synners_, Pat Cadigan]          | including over 20 children.
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