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	Name:	JustAGuy -
	Subject:	Mood Swings
	Date:	2/9/2004 11:53:05 AM

Maybe I'm just in a "disagreeable" mood today, but I have to disagree.

For every Joseph Smith, there are a thousand other small-time criminals with lots of drug arrests and a minor violent crime arrest that NEVER commit this kind of crime. Likewise, there are other monsters out there committing child kidnapping/rape/murder who have never even had a parking ticket.

To me it seems there are just monsters among us -- some are felons and some look meek as lambs (some priests for instance).

I don't think we can afford to build and maintain enough prisons to warehouse all of the small-time criminals for decades and decades.

I think we should reserve long-term prisons for the worst of the worst. For others, we need to find alternative punishments like work farms (and not the kind we had back in the 40's), group homes, ankle bracelets with electronic monitoring, etc.

And I'll open myself up for some attacks with this suggestion -- I think we have lost the war on drugs and should negotiate a surrender. Decriminalize most drugs and take them out of the black market, but also give law-abiding citizens permits to carry a firearm.

Make drugs cheap enough that a crackhead can survive on a job emptying trash at McDonald's AND let him know that the elderly couple walking down the street just MIGHT blow his brains out if he tries to steal from them -- then we might find some middle ground we can all live with.

As always, it's just my opinion ...