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Unset's avatar

"Ideally, police wouldn’t carry guns at all, but the proliferation of firearms in the United States makes implementing such a policy very difficult."

It's also very difficult for dogs to speak English and pigs to fly.

As Bernie said, there is NO CITY ON EARTH without police. There has never been a society since the dawn of civilization that didn't maintain order with the credible threat of violence. The fact that anyone takes this discussion seriously for one second is honestly a travesty.

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“ Ultimately, I think the Norwegian model is the most successful: well-funded, genuinely rehabilitative facilities that focus on making prisoners, upon release, functioning members of society should be the norm.”

The U.S. is a very different place from Norway. Norway does not have the levels of crime the U.S. does. Nor does it have a permanent multi-generational underclass that celebrates criminal culture. Until those issues are fully addressed by our society, a retributional model of prison is more appropriate than a rehabilitative model.

The liberal “soft on crime” approach has led to deteriorating levels of safety in major cities across the U.S. When a felon-in-possession charge is given a six-month home confinement by the local progressive DA, when the Feds will ask for ten years, is demonstrative of liberal policies on crime.

As decades of criminology show, most

criminals do not become “functioning members of society” upon release. How could they if they never had the normative cultural values in the first place?

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