Nuk may be one of the smartest members here, gets in and out of political stuff with minimal detail..
Sometimes I wish I kept my mouth shut, but all the BS going on in the US fires me right up...and I am not even on anything..if this was 4 years ago, I'd probably be banned LOL....
If you look statistically, gun crimes and even crime in general is at an all time low for I believe a 20 year period. Now mind you, Newtown makes me sick to my stomach...but in my opinion all these wack jobs going out and committing crimes is the issue, they just so happen to use guns.
In my opinion if we focused more on preventative measure such as Mental Health that would be a good first step, but we will never eliminate all crime or prevent all from happening, their is just pure evil and sick f***s in this World, its going to happen. That and substance abuse/alcohol counseling. Rather then incarcerate people and thereby not even remotely attacking the problem, we need to try to help these people, ties in hand and hand with mental health IMO.
But we all know the drug war is a business, and so is prison for the most part. Prison used to lock up people who were threats to others in society. Now you can go to prison for steroids, jaywalking, unpaid parking tickets..almost anything. I had a friend who got his license suspended for speeding..they wouldn't give him a work permit, so he was driving illegally, got pulled over on a suspended license. They threw him in jail for 90 days. He lost his job, and eventually his apartment and his life crumbled away...all over doing 85mph in a 65mph zone...how the f*** does this even make sense..Only in the great US of A.