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Crime statistics prove only one thing.
That we have crime.
And that we are civilized

Part of the reason crime rates are so high is civilization. Once we get civilized and start believing crime shouldn't be dealt with in the harshest manner possible the criminals gain the upper hand.
Good people don't like hurting people. They don't like punishing people. Unfortunately that makes them vulnerable.

The Big problem arises when those good people force their ideals on people that are just ALMOST good. Like me. I consider myself a pretty good guy but I believe in the death penalty.
It's an awful thing to take a life. I feel it when I kill a deer in the woods. I don't know how I would feel if I had to take a human life. Or, if I could. It is easy to say it, another thing to do it.

Some crimes have been reduced to the point of decriminalization. Rape use to be a hanging offense, so was kidnapping. and many others. It takes years to execute someone and Millions of dollars.
Now they use the argument that some people were actually innocent. We have DNA tests that cleared them.
Well those same DNA tests can also prove guilt so why not execute the ones that the DNA evidence proves they did it. You don't hear them say that though.

I find it very distasteful that it costs somewhere in the area of $240,000 a year to house a criminal..
Our folks on poverty level income live on what? $15,000 a year. I don't think we should spend any more than that on housing criminals. If they have to live in a stink hole that's to damn bad.
And if execution is painful that's just to damn bad too. I wonder how much pain the victim was in.
I just cannot understand the idea of keeping a murderer, or a serial rapist, or habitual criminals locked up in Jail.
Three strikes you are out should mean just that. Permanently out....
Dead.

Guns won't prevent crime. Guns won't cause crime. People do both. It is up to us to change the system but that's Politics. And we don't want to argue politics....do we?