04-01-2022, 08:38 AM
(03-31-2022, 04:49 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: I don't know that this has ever been argued against, and you and I have had this discussion several times.
I'm not going to get into the meat of your post, really. I just don't have the bandwidth for it today. I will just say that while I have never seen anyone really contest this correlation, there are many people who ignore it. Whether it be in the Democratic Party as they try to target firearms to lower violent crime rates or whether it is the Republicans that focus on punitive actions and putting blinders on when it comes to deeper societal issues.
Root cause mitigation. It's what we policy wonks love to look at. It's complex, politically unsavory, and actually solves problems. Therefore, politicians never want to engage in it.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
