How do we curb the violence that plagues our streets? Each day, we are bombarded with reports of assaults, road rage, gunshot victims, and even attempts to assassinate a presidential candidate. It spirals worse and worse each day. I should not have to worry everytime I leave my home that my life could be in jeopardy.
So, what is the response? The first thing I always hear is, “Take guns away.” OK, but it is not guns doing the violent behavior. It is people. If you take guns away, it’s like sticking a large rock in a flowing stream. The water will find a way around it. People will continue to find a way to act out this behavior, not to mention expanding the black market
What about more police? Flooding our streets with more police gives a sense of martial law. Unfortunately, the police forces are already stretched thin thanks to budget cuts and the lack of willing people to take up the task. Even now, in Pittsburgh, there will be no police presence on the streets from 3am to 7am.
Jails are overcrowded and are just holding people for their crimes. In most cases, there is very little effort to reform prisioners with the hope of being able to give people a chance to change their lives for the better. Prisons are not correcting the problem. Instead, they are like a petri dish developing a culture of deep-rooted immorality and violence.
This is NOT what prisons were meant to accomplish.
There is no “quick fix” to the expanding violence across this country. We need to push for reform and a re-establishment of morality in our country. This “anything goes” attitude is driving us deeper and deeper into chaos. We need to focus on the disease, not just treat the symptoms.
“The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.” – Princess Leia
May be a quote from a movie, but a truth proven throughout history.
Insurrection Of The Mind 