Yes, that is how a true conservative thinks. Conservatives are pro-individual freedom and against government intervention.
Gangbangers deserve ZERO consideration, they are a cancer on our communities. He sounds like a soft-on-crime squish that we often see in far too many of our urban locales. News flash, “Hug a thug” doesn’t work, and most likely will get you and your loved ones shanked. Frankly, given that you’re one of the biggest Slick Willard apologists on FR, you often have a nasty habit of mistaking liberals and left-wingers as “Conservatives.”
True.