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CRIME: Stop incarcerating those who perpetrate victimless crimes to free money and jail space for truly violent criminals.
1) I think we should be tougher on violent crime and softer on victimless crime. We should focus our limited resources on crime that truly affects the citizenry. 2) I would encourage traffic officers to get all reckless drivers off the street, whether they be drunk or distracted. 3) I would stop pretending that gun control will solve any problems. I would try to get people to realize that when good citizens don't have guns it emboldens criminals to commit more crimes. The police can't be everywhere.
SOURCES: 1) Fifty percent of murdered spouses are wife beaters killed in self defense. [Donald B. Kates, Jr. "Guns, Murder and the Constitution: A Realistic Assessment of Gun Control" San Francisco: Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, 1990. p. 25.] 2) By the late 1970s armed citizens were killing more criminals in self-defense than the police. [Mary Lorenz Dietz, KILLING FOR PROFIT:THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF FELONY HOMICIDE (Chicago:Nelson-Hall, 1983) Table A.1. pp. 202-203.] 3) A victim who submits is twice as likely to be injured as a victim who resists with a gun. (Defending yourself without a gun does result in more injury, however.) [Philip J. Cook, "The Relationship Between Victim Resistance and Injury in Noncommercial Robbery, Journal of Legal Studies 15, 1983 pp.405-406.] 4) The District of Columbia has the toughest anti-gun laws in the nation and the highest homicide rate. ["Fifty One and Counting" Spotlight 2/13/89 p.2.] 5) "Between 67 to 80 percent of killers in domestic shoot outs have prior arrest records, frequently for violent crimes. Thus, the average domestic killer is simply continuing a life of violence."[David B. Kopel, "Trust the People:The Case Against Gun Control" Policy Analysis #109 (Washington, D.C.:Cato Institute, 1988.) p. 6] |
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