Well, yes. If crime is legalized, the immediate result will be zero crime. Of course, we will still having people getting killed, kids being kidnapped, etc. etc., however, the crime rate will still be at a zero level. You see, there is method in the madness of these people. Wow! Where in my posting did I ever say that we should decriminalize "people getting killed, kids being kidnapped, etc..." I made a specific point about the fact that criminalization of drugs makes the sale of illegal drugs extremely profitable: The drugs themselves are cheap, it's the risk involved in the distribution that makes them expensive. And that money drives the criminal element. If we decriminalize drugs, the profit motive goes away.
This has nothing to do with decriminalization of murder or kidnapping.
Mark
The point is, that many people argue that certain acts should be decriminalized with seemingly their only logic being that decriminalizing the act would lower the crime rate. I am saying that the only way the crime rate would be lowered is the resulting reduction from a previously criminal act no longer being criminal.