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[Benton]

(03-28-2019, 07:25 PM)Beaker Wrote: We were talking deterrents. Tougher sentences are more likely to deter the average person from deciding to commit a crime....more so than having to get a gun license.

The average person generally isn't the problem.

Only something like 3 percent of the population have been convicted of felonies. Not all of those are gun related.

I'll agree tougher sentences work on the 97% of the population that don't want to go to jail. The problem is that 3% that don't care.

As with the war on drugs and other failed initiatives have shown, increased sentences do little to nothing to solve the problem. If anything it makes it worse, as we divert funds that could go toward fixes to housing those who commit the crime.