[brien]

Quote by: Sonart . {{SLAPS FOREHEAD}} Of course, get tough on crime!! Now why didn't I think of that?? Oh wait, that's right... because we've already done that. In fact we've been doing it for years, and it's turned the U.S. into the new Gulag Archipelago, with the largest per capita prison population in the world. Here in California our prisons are so over-crowded we can't build them fast enough... or afford to keep building them. And yet we're STILL among the most violent nations on earth. Got a plan B, brien?? .

Better slap your forehead again there Sonart. The prisons are overcrowded with drug convicted criminals, not firearms related criminals. By far the single most crime that puts criminals in prison are drug related. Get real Sonart.

.Drug War Facts: Prisons, Jails and Probation – Overview

Prisons, Jails and Probation – Overview

The Department of Justice reported that at year-end 2003, federal prisons held a total of 158,426 inmates, of whom 86,972 (55%) were drug offenders. By comparison in 2000 federal prisons held 131,739 total inmates of whom 74,276 (56%) were drug offenders, and in 1995 federal prisons held a total of 88,658 inmates of whom 52,782 (60%) were drug offenders. Source: Harrison, Paige M. & Allen J. Beck, PhD, US Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prisoners in 2005 (Washington, DC: US Department of Justice, November 2006), p. 10, Table 14. State prisons held a total of 1,256,400 inmates on all charges at yearend 2003. "In absolute numbers an estimated 650,400 inmates in State prison at yearend 2003 (the latest available offense data) were held for violent offenses: 151,500 for murder, 176,600 for robbery, 124,200 for assault, and 148,800 for rape and other sexual assaults (table 12). In addition, 262,000 inmates were held for property offenses, 250,900 for drug offenses, and 86,400 for public-order offenses."

And just for good measure in this link below, you will see that 55% of prisoners are incarcerated for drug crimes. 72% are incarcerated for non violent crimes.
http://www.sentencingproject.org/Adm...lprisonpop.pdf


Keep slapping your forehead until you get it there Sonart. Drug related and non violent crimes overcrowd the prisons. The DOJ does not have a priority for dealing with firearms related crimes.


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