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- From: shaffer@achilles.ctd.anl.gov (Michael A. Shaffer)
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- Subject: Re: Registering "Assault Keys"
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.185119.4588@mcs.anl.gov>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 18:51:19 GMT
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- >We have about doubled the prison population in this country in the
- >last ten or so years. Built a lot of prisons. Spent billions.
- >Emptied the mental hospitals to find money to do it (indirectly,
- >but that's about what happened).
-
- Well we have put a lot of non-violent offenders in prison. But we
- are releasing many violent offenders all the time. Some 90% of
- those convicted of violent crimes are repeat offenders. Now they must
- have been released if they were on the outside to commit those
- crimes. We are NOT keeping the violent offenders locked up. Studies
- have shown that the chances of doing significant time for a violent
- crime are VERY low.
-
- >
- >I sure don't feel any safer. Seems to me that all we did with
- >stiffer sentences and more prisons was increase the supply of
- >criminals with darn little effect on violent crime. Has it been
- >cut by half? By even 10%? Do you feel any safer? I sure don't.
- >
- >As for our wonderful handgun culture, I think it very interesting
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- What a wonderfully PC term. Did you come up with that one yourself?
-
- >that I am more likely to be blown away by a 13 year old in
- >Minneapolis than I am to be blown up by the IRA in London and
-
- You have a source fir this I presume. Also consider that you are even
- MORE likely to be blown away in DC where handguns are banned.
-
- >probably even in Belfast. True, no one can keep the IRA disarmed,
- >but trying does seem to help a little. . .
-
- Completely irrelevnt.
-
- >
- >--
- > Larry W. Loen | My Opinions are decidedly my own, so please
- > | do not attribute them to my employer
-
- mike
-