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It took that genius 15 days to get him(her)self tombstoned. My take: Laws don't equal control. If they did, we wouldn't need prisons for lawbreakers.
I am getting sick of those who are over-sympathetic to criminals. This society is completely unreasonable in its approach to crime. We make laws which turn victimless actions into crimes. We make laws that can put an addict in prison for longer than a rapist. We make laws that can send a single mom to jail, cause the loss of her job and possibly the custody of her children but let a domestic abuser off with a warning.
We're now seriously over videoed and monitored. A court order is needed to tap a phone call but "stingray" devices are readily available and in use by law enforcement. Why are there incidents of people dying in police custody due to asphyxiation and dehydration? How is reasonable for the federal government to have a problem with states that have legalized marijuana while expecting the cooperation of sanctuary cities?
It is time for everyone to accept that 18 months in a cell won't rebuild a life destroyed by addiction and crime to feed the addiction. Nor will that time in a cell rehabilitate a sexual predator or domestic abuser.
Using the term "control" for a law is a despicable lie to the public.
Militarizing the police is a mistake.
Sending addicts and non-violent criminals to prison is a mistake.
Waging a "war" on drugs using helicopters, attack dogs and SWAT teams when the principle victims are also perpetrators.
The US is morphing from a place of hope into another dead end where the haves take from the have-nots.
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