Posted on 10/30/2020 10:03:37 AM PDT by ammodotcom
There’s no two ways about it: The United States of America and its 50 state governments love putting people in prison.
The U.S. has both the highest number of prisoners and the highest per capita incarceration rate in the modern world at 655 adults per 100,000. (It’s worth noting that China’s incarceration statistics are dubious, and they execute far more people than the United States. Indeed, the so-called People’s Republic executes more people annually than the rest of the world combined.) Still, that’s more than 2.2 million Americans in state and federal prisons as well as county jails.
On top of those currently serving time, 4.7 million Americans were on parole in 2016, or about one in 56. These numbers do not include people on probation, which raises the number to one in 35. Nor does it include all of the Americans who have been arrested at one time or another, which is over 70 million – more than the population of France.
For firearm owners in particular, the growth in this “prison-industrial complex” is troubling because felons are forbidden from owning firearms and ammunition under the 1968 Gun Control Act. As the number of laws has grown and the cultural shift for police has gone from a focus on keeping the peace to enforcing the law, more and more Americans are being stripped of their 2nd Amendment rights (not to mention other civil rights like voting – as of 2017, 6.1 million Americans cannot vote because of their criminal records). All told, eight percent of all Americans cannot own firearms because of a felony conviction.
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You must not read your own posts.
If anything this 'website of conservatives' leans toward a light hand in regard to citizens being arrested or locked up.
Of course you haven't been around long enough to know what is or isn't a general tendency at Free Republic, but you've certainly been quick to adopt (and cling to) the noob's pissy little attitude and tone.
No. The Fedgov, without proper authority from Constitutional Amendment, MADE it a crime in 1934...
They made gun ownership a crime in 1934 as well... Lot's of unConstitutional crap came out of that era that the SCOTUS refuses to fix.
Which, proves the point. If you don't have enough criminals... Just pass another asinine law.
Thanks, newb. If you think the prisons are full of harmless, well-meaning citizens, I don’t know what to tell you, other than you’re a fool.
Any idea what percentage of prison inmates are doing time for insider trading? Just curious. Right now we have a sample size of one. Who’s been out for a decade, at least.
Amen. This is just a blogpimp’s stupid variation of “disparate impact.” And the retard libertarian wing of FR laps it up.
Thanks for trying to state MY case.
We see who is the fool.
Nope... But, I know quite a few people who have gone to jail over the years for bullsh*t weapons violations, collecting rain water, etc...
We need laws. Not arguing against that...
But... No one can make the case that our legal system is anything like what it was designed to be.
I’m not so sure Russia would be thrilled at the prospect at becoming our penal colony. I also don’t imagine the average American convict would be able to do anything more productive with 40 acres in Siberia other than die somewhere on them.
She actually wasn’t convicted for criminal insider trading charges. She served five months for lying about her sale of ImClone stock in 2001. Basically, she committed the cardinal sin of talking to the cops without a lawyer present. But it was worth it for all the jokes we got to make about making crafting candles out of commissary!
No actually, she was convicted of a process crime, lying to LEOs investigating the inside trading thing.
1) People need to learn to keep their mouths shut.
2) Prosecution of process crimes is out of control and needs reform.
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