08-29-2018, 12:35 AM
(08-28-2018, 09:49 AM)fredtoast Wrote: The rate is what matters.
Would you rather live in a country with a million citizens and a crime rate of 10% or a country with 5 million and a crime rate of 5%.
There are fewer crimes in the smaller country, but you are twice as likely to be a victim.
How can you argue a rate is what matters when the entire purpose of a law is to keep people safe and alive?!
You can't say "ok, it's ok that an illegal immigrant killed a US citizen because we haven't reached our quota yet where we have to start cracking down."