Crimes Are Reported Each Day
Watch any news channel you like and you will hear of murders, rapes, child molestations, school shootings, child abductions, robberies, and a ton of other violent crimes. What’s happening? Why can’t people in America just enjoy life? I have an idea of what’s going on.
Punishment Does Not Fit The Crime
I have heard some organizations argue this point, but their argument is usually that the punishments are too harsh for the crimes committed. I say that as a nation we are too soft on crime. For example I checked the sex offender registry for my home county, which is Lee County, AL, and found that 102 convicted sex offenders live here. You want to know how many I think should live here? Zero. That should be a one-strike-and-you’re-out crime.
A New Justice System To Deter Crime
Scenario: A man kills his grandmother because she would not give him drug money.
Result: Expedient trial and swift execution.
Scenario: Person molests a child.
Result: Expedient trial and swift execution.
Scenario: A store clerk is killed during a robbery.
Result: Expedient trial and swift execution.
Scenario: Person abducts a child
Result: Expedient trial and life in prison. No parole. No possibility of being outside the prison walls unless it’s in a pine box.
Can you see where I’m going with this? If there’s a bucket of $20 bills and I walk by and pick one out and nothing happens what will I do? Well the next time I walk by I might grab a couple of twenties and so on. But, if the first time I grabbed a 20 someone cut my hand off I wouldn’t steal another 20. Not with that hand anyway. And at most it would happen one more time before I had to start picking my nose with my elbow. My point is that if there were real consequences for crime and not just some slap on the wrist I promise that crime would be dramatically reduced. Wow! What a concept! Punish people for doing wrong! I wonder why no one has thought of this before? I’ve got news for you, they have. The problem is that the criminals are given more rights than their victims.
Tags: America, Crime, Kids, Politics by Eric Sanders
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