Ray From Cleveland
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Nope that doesn't work either, since a gun is 43 times more likely to kill a family member than a bad guy.
What we need to do is address issues like addiction, poverty, racism, mental illness.... that's how we reduce crime. This is what the Europeans have done, and they have nowhere near our crime rates.
The point is, the additional security measures taken to guard a Death Row inmate so he doesn't take out a few guards on the way out would make it prohibitively expensive if you applied it to all the darkies... um, sorry, I mean, all the "criminals"
Death row inmates don't get any special expensive guarding. That's such bullshit, just like your 43 times figure as if guns jump out of drawers and cabinets and shoot family members. The reason people like you are safe in your home without a gun is because of people like us that do have guns. Don't believe me, then get a huge sign made that says THIS HOUSEHOLD HAS NO FIREARMS, hang that on your front porch, and get back to us in a few months (if you're still alive) and tell us how that worked out for you.
We don't need to address addiction, poverty and racism. Racism is made up as there are plenty of successful minorities in this country and nothing but an excuse for failure. Addiction is something you did to yourself unless you got hooked on prescribed medication, and you can get medical help for that on your own. Poverty is the situation of having no money or little of it. The solution to poverty is getting money. The way to get money is getting a job and working a lot of hours. We had mental health under control. But Geraldo in the 70's had his own television show. He started a movement stating that mental institutions were unconstitutional because we are locking up non-criminal citizens. It got to some liberal judge and he ruled the same. The institutions had to open their doors and let everybody out. They are still roaming our streets today. If you want to solve that problem, vote Republican so we can get more conservative judges back on the bench and force out the liberal ones that caused the problem in the first place.