Three Strikes Laws are like Zero Tolerance Policies.
They are a way of dodging the responsibility for making common-sense distinctions. They play well to people who think, who are admittedly a majority of the population.
If I had two strikes. . .
and didn’t have the self control to keep drugs off my person. . .
I’d need to be in prison.
I hate it when they act like someone has life for stealing a pizza. It’s not for stealing the pizza. It’s for a life of habitual criminality.
Caught and convicted three times? Man, you have committed a TON of crime.
Habitual criminals deserve to be in prison.