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.
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Liberal judges and prosecutors keep letting criminals go so politicians get involved to make sure these habituals are punished. Unintended consequences are things like this.
For non-violent crimes, criminals should be sentenced to increasing periods of hard labor. For violent crimes, hard labor as well as three strikes rules, but only for crimes of violence, not drug possession or shoplifting.
Exactly! It's an abdication of reason in favor of an entirely emotion based reaction. The easy way out.