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(03-29-2019, 07:16 PM)Benton Wrote: If neither side is going to budge from an extreme point of view, then it's going to be all or nothing. 

I'll admit to being naive, but cooler heads should prevail.

I agree.  Seeing as how I live in a state when not a single person like that exists in the state government on this issue I have a hard time seeing how that could happen.

Quote:Lengthy sentences has an impact, but not always on prevention.

If you want real prevention then you have to invest in programs that target at risk youth around the ages of 9 to 11. 

Quote:Which, in regard to gun violence, is the issue.

Making guns harder to get for a normal citizen will have zero effect in this country.  There are already ~400 million guns in circulation, the genie is out of the bottle on restricting access as a means of prevention.

Quote:I've got no issue with long sentences for criminals, although I think there are way too many things people get sent to jail for. But as you pointed out, there's a plethora of guns already out there. Putting away Criminal A for life is great, that takes of Criminal A... but there's still Criminal B with easy access to a firearm for the next crime.
Lengthy senteces as the cure has been tried. Several decades later, we've still got the same problems.

Except we don't have the same problems because the crime rate has been steadily dropping since the early 90's.  Gun ownership has skyrocketed and violent crime has dropped.  How is this apparent contradiction possible?

Quote:Well, yeah, because lawmakers on both sides are extremist idiots. 
Our locations play a bit of a role in things. A friend of mine used to be a State Rep here in Kentucky. As a Democrat, he introduced legislation to expand concealed carry rights. Almost everyone on both sides supported it. Last year, Kentucky Republicans rolled back their concealed carry requirements, becoming a "concealed carry for all" state. It, also, received bipartisan support (although, I'll admit I was against it as it's already legal to open carry here, and I'm against having less gun safety education).

Our locations absolutely play a huge role.  A Democrat who advanced any pro-gun legislation in CA would be recalled ASAP.