I used to strongly support the death penalty, at the state level, since it just won’t be carried out at the federal level. But it has become so eroded in most states that it is just a joke.
The only people who ever face it are multiple killers who are particularly gruesome in their means. Ironic in that they should be first in line for quick execution. But so many judges and politicians are adamantly opposed to it that it is almost a lost cause.
However, there is a remedy.
Right now, last year, various governments around the US executed a mere 28 savage killers. But ordinary citizens, not under the foolish constraints of government, are legally armed and dispatching huge numbers of villains.
Citizens shoot and kill at least twice as many criminals as police do every year (1,527 to 606). 2,133 total.
This really takes a bite out of crime.
The FBI regularly interviews armed criminals in prison, and has found that many commit a dozen or more crimes, and a significant number commit 50 or more crimes in just a small number of years.
So when an armed criminal is killed, it erases all the future crimes they would have committed. And this just slashes the armed crime statistics.
And more, to put violent criminals in prison may cost from half a million to a million dollars a decade. Each decade.
Add up the numbers. At the low end, $1,066,500,000.
At the high end, $2,133,000,000.
And this doesn’t include the substantial costs to people and society from their potential future criminal acts.
So the bottom line is that an armed citizenry is policing society far better than government is willing to do.
“This really takes a bite out of crime.”
I agree, if a thug sees the possibility of getting whacked in the commission of a crime, he will certainly exercise a little caution.
But what this does, is make “gun free zones” even more vulnerable to shootings, as the perp feels confident there are no armed citizens willing to do him in.
Some how or another, in accordance with the 2nd Amendment, these gun free zones need to be abolished.
I know of one such shopping mall, and when seeing the guns banned sign on the doors, I immediately think the place is operated by libtards.