The focus needs to be VIOLENT crime, not just crime in general. I agree there are far too many non-violent criminals locked up.Increasing executions is not a society I would be happy with. Increased incarceration has not done much and is a negative in the long run.
There's a huge difference between saying that violent reoffenders need to be taken out of society indefinitely and saying that drug users should be executed. In fact, 'huge' is an understatement.Yes, we should have executions for drug users! Execute 15% of the population.
It's a pretty simple equation and it's difficult to argue against it. If only 1% of the population are violent re-offenders and commit 2/3rds of violent crime, regardless of opinion, taking that 1% out of circulation is definitely going to reduce violent crime tremendously. Even if seeing that doesn't do anything to prevent others from engaging in violent crime (totally neglecting any deterrent effect), the benefit is already significant--and that's true regardless of the causes that drive that 1% to reoffend.
The problem is that society is going to try to deal with violent crime in one way or another. Trying to regulate items and substances instead of behavior and reoffenders is obviously ineffective since what is targeted isn't what's causing the crime. Taking that approach means that more and more freedom will be taken away without doing anything to deal with the source of the problem. The reason that legislatures are trying to restrict "ghost guns" is precisely because of this problem--the focus is all wrong. It's not the fact that you can legally make guns for your own use that's resulting in violent crime, it's that violent offenders, who make up a very small percentage of the population are being released into to society to re-offend. Dealing with their METHODS is pointless because it's not the methods that are the problem.
It's obvious that society isn't willing to take the steps necessary to really reduce violent crime and that means that it will continue to be used as an excuse to pass more and more freedom-restricting laws that will have no effect on the outcome.
A gun that looks functional but can not be made to fire.What exactly is a "dummy" gun?