j-mac
Nuthin' but the truth
1. LinkWow, so you hear what you want to hear, that must be an awful way to go through life.
1. The cost of the Prison industrial complex is far higher than more social programs.
2. The Second Amendment has been misinterpreted as a universal right to gun ownership, which was never the intent of the Founders.
3. No, just be realistic about it. You can't fix addiction by incarcerating poor people. Rich people get rehab and amazingly, they never commit crimes afterwards. How about doing that with poor addicts?
I despised Rush Limbaugh, but I never thought he should have gone to prison because he became addicted to painkillers. The difference is he had the affluence to get access to rehab and good lawyers to keep him out of jail.
4. I didn't say to increase incarceration. Most of these people could be treated on an outpatient basis. The problem was when the courts closed the mental hosptials, the GOP cut funding for health care to give tax cuts to rich people.
No, most of these things haven't been tried. Regarding gun control, Chicago used to have fairly sensible gun laws. Then the McDonald decision nullified them, and we got crime shooting through the roof.
2. That’s your opinion. SCOTUS disagrees.
3. So, we should do away with prisons, and normal people can just suck it…right?
4. We’ve tried that…remember Methadone clinics in the late 70s?


