Gun Control & RKBA

EdwardBernays

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12. Check it out for yourself

Sat May 28, 2016, 12:31 PM

May 2016

Scandinavian prisons weren't always the way the are now.

And no we don't have the resources. At all. We endlessly release people early due to lack of resources. Of course changing laws to lower prison populations would help, but they wouldn't create the cash needed for $740,000 x the number of violent offender a year for decades.

Between 2000-08 96,000 violent criminals were imprisoned on a state level alone: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States

That's $71,712,000,000 just to permanently jail violent offenders on a state level from just those 9 years. That doesn't include federal prisoners. And it's not even one decade.

How many hundreds of billions do you actually think the US should spend to lock up people forever? Especially since it doesn't lower crime rates.

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I'm okay with violent felons owning guns after they serve their sentence... [View all] discntnt_irny_srcsm May 2016 OP

Lol EdwardBernays May 2016 #1

Are you saying that... discntnt_irny_srcsm May 2016 #2

Well EdwardBernays May 2016 #3

We don't have a Scandinavian system discntnt_irny_srcsm May 2016 #6

You're right EdwardBernays May 2016 #7

how do you know the "results" gejohnston May 2016 #9

Check it out for yourself EdwardBernays May 2016 #12

the question was about gejohnston May 2016 #16

Like I said EdwardBernays May 2016 #17

perhaps gejohnston May 2016 #18

not true EdwardBernays May 2016 #19

Yes I have checked gejohnston May 2016 #20

"...we don't have the resources to lock up every murder and rapist and violent criminal forever." discntnt_irny_srcsm May 2016 #15

More EdwardBernays May 2016 #22

I infer you're against the idea discntnt_irny_srcsm May 2016 #24

the idea... EdwardBernays May 2016 #26

"Crime is a symptom..." discntnt_irny_srcsm May 2016 #27

No worries EdwardBernays May 2016 #28

Some replies discntnt_irny_srcsm May 2016 #33

cool EdwardBernays May 2016 #35

replies discntnt_irny_srcsm May 2016 #51

I'm missing the connection on some of these gejohnston May 2016 #38

ok EdwardBernays May 2016 #40

Latin America is mostly middle income, gejohnston May 2016 #42

Ok 4 EdwardBernays May 2016 #47

still making an argument based on emotion and gejohnston May 2016 #50

part two gejohnston May 2016 #39

ok 2 EdwardBernays May 2016 #41

community policing isn't riding around in cars, gejohnston May 2016 #43

Ok 3 EdwardBernays May 2016 #45

cum hoc ergo propter hoc gejohnston May 2016 #48

post script gejohnston May 2016 #44

As I said before EdwardBernays May 2016 #46

the only people who would obey that, gejohnston May 2016 #49

I haven't heard from you on post #15 discntnt_irny_srcsm May 2016 #21

I just replied EdwardBernays May 2016 #23

me too, thanks n/t discntnt_irny_srcsm May 2016 #25

cum hoc ergo propter hoc gejohnston May 2016 #8

Yes EdwardBernays May 2016 #10

I was hoping to see something more scholarly that The Atlantic gejohnston May 2016 #14

And yet... beevul May 2016 #13

Welcome to the Gungeon SecularMotion May 2016 #4

Even for the Gungeon EdwardBernays May 2016 #5

Heh. Most controllers sound more RW than folks here. But enjoy your myth. Eleanors38 May 2016 #29

Depends EdwardBernays May 2016 #31

I do not consider robust support of the Second right-wing. Nor did JFK, an NRA member. Eleanors38 May 2016 #36

wellll EdwardBernays May 2016 #37

It wasn't a pro-gun poster who said this... beevul May 2016 #30

Another gun control poster sarisataka May 2016 #32

And they say gun rights supporters on DU are supposed to be the violent ones... beevul May 2016 #34

I read an article recently TeddyR May 2016 #11