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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of things should be decriminalized.

Gun violence should be hyper-criminalized. Mandatory minimums when convicted of a gun crime. No bail for people who commit crimes using guns. [/quote]

Agreed. Not a big fan of carjacking either even though usually no one gets hurt. Maryland suburbs need stricter sentencing as well.[/quote]

If your goal is to deter criminals, we know longer sentences don't work.  The type of person who kills a kid doesn't think - Oh my, I will get a life sentence if I pull this trigger - before they commit a crime.  You get one off the street but continue to breed others.  I really want to understand the gaps and failures in our system.[/quote]

It isn't about deterring criminals with the threat of a long sentence when they have the gun in their hand.  It's about taking career criminals off the streets, at least until they are elderly and pose relatively little threat.  We know that a small number of people are responsible for most of the gun crime in cities.  These people have generally been arrested multiple times before, and often incarcerated, although not always.   Three strikes laws have gotten a bad rap, but if applied to violent offenses, "three strikes and you're out" makes perfect sense to me.  [/quote]

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