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The destination severe crimes should lead to…

As I have noted before, Thomas Sowell is always right on target. This time, Sowell further emphasizes the errors of an already completely discredited idea (well, to thinking people, anyway)- that the cause of crime is “injustices and inequities.”

The cause of crime is actually the result of a combination of factors- usually, though not always, originating in parents who fail to both love and discipline their children.

We’ve all suffered injustice and inequities, after all. I’m not a rich as Bill Gates but you don’t see me robbing him. But, because we’ve not poured even more money into the problem (i.e. committed a crime of our own by robbing taxpayers to fund redistribution schemes) we’ve got worse crime. Sowell explains the fallacy of this belief.

As with the majority of problems the United States faces today, this belief is championed by liberals who feel that if they can just steal a little bit more from all our paychecks they can solve any problem society faces. The fact of the matter is that some problems just don’t have a solution. We’ll always have crime.

But here is a way to reduce it. Liberals will scream and whine even more at this suggestion but you’ve got to understand- with liberals it is not about results- it is about intentions. So just ignore them when possible. But I digress.

If you are interested in results:

1. Punish criminals swiftly and harshly. In other words, prisons should not be country clubs. They should be, rather, fearful places that nobody in their right mind would want to find themselves in- ever. That way, when one criminal gets out he can give graphic details of the horrors awaiting other would-be criminals.

2. Make frequent and highly visible use of the death penalty and open up all serious crimes to its possibility- pedophiles, for example. By showing people what a frying body looks like as it shakes and jerks in the electric chair just might make a lasting impression on would-be criminals.

3. Prisoners should be forced to pay for their own keep. Any assets they have should be taken to pay for their incarceration expenses.

4. If not put to death, the criminal should serve his time and then, after release, enter society with his name cleared- a fresh start before him. But if he breaks the law again for an offense normally warranting more prison time, this time he should be put to death.

Presto- the crime rate will dramatically drop. Liberals will argue that there is no evidence that the harshness of punishment is related to the decision to commit a crime. But this colossal bit of ignorance is easily discredited. In a world without consequences for ones actions people will do whatever they wish- the “utopia” liberals are working for - as the increase in crime clearly proves. But it’s time we started protecting people and putting the rights of true victims ahead of the predators.

And that’s the way it is.