Reply to Crime on the hill - Charles Allen has got to go

Forum Index » Metropolitan DC Local Politics

Reply to "Crime on the hill - Charles Allen has got to go "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This country is strange.

Half of the populace is willfully obtuse to the dangers of guns in the face of terrible rates of death. Just look at the murder statistics in Japan and European countries that have banned guns for the most simple explanation for why we need strict gun laws.

We also have issues just facing cold hard facts with who commits crime and why they should be locked up. I don’t want Charles Allen to tread the same ground that’s already been trodden by “examining the root causes of crime so as to develop a holistic approach to fighting it”. The causes are obvious: poverty, homes with one parent, or parents who aren’t around or who even care, etc. there are a million studies that show they root cause of crime.

And so, Charles Allen can kowtow to the self-flagellating criminal justice reform folks all he wants. He can waste money on all the “violence interruptors” and spend money on restorative justice, and Youth Rehabilitaton Act, and second chance act and all this other nonsense that is less effective than just tough on crime policing and arrest.

[b]The facts are that some families get screwed because their father commit a violent crime or a teen gets locked up for murder[/b]. Or what have you. We need to enforce the law on violent crime. We could legalize other stuff like drugs, but we need to fight violent crime or it’s going to be 1990 all over again and families will leave and the tax base will dry up and it will suck again.
[/quote]

This lens is just incredible. And I'm not attacking you, PP, because I know the context of the conversation and where this is coming from.

But the families that truly, primarily, and innocently get screwed are the the families of the victims. Nevermind the actual victims.

Somehow, we've just decided to ignore them. It's like, the crime has occurred and we can't prevent that victimization, so we should focus on providing social support for the criminal and their families.

The entire premise is Orwellian.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics