How to stop gun violence

[Hari Seldon]

Interesting article on what works. From a practical business perspective.

So far, both sides just aren't stepping up to the plate. So we're stuck with stunts like sit-ins and scare tactics. I remain convinced that the presidential candidate who refocuses the gun debate towards a push for more funding would enjoy a significant boost in the polls. The question is: which candidate is smart enough to simply promote what we already know works?

//http://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/29/gun-control-isnt-the-answer-we-already-know-how-to-stop-the-violence-commentary.html

 

[Beaudreaux]

Busted link

 

[Bob N]

Interesting article on what works. From a practical business perspective.



//http://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/29/gun-control-isnt-the-answer-we-already-know-how-to-stop-the-violence-commentary.html

The link wasn't working. Is this what you were going to show?

Gun control isn't the answer. We already know how to stop the violence

 

[Bob N]

Interesting article on what works. From a practical business perspective.



//http://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/29/gun-control-isnt-the-answer-we-already-know-how-to-stop-the-violence-commentary.html

The article is pretty informative, but the GOP is well known to stop money from going to communities to build up police so that they can enforce the existing laws better.

 

[Hari Seldon]

The link wasn't working. Is this what you were going to show?

Gun control isn't the answer. We already know how to stop the violence

Yep, that's it. Thanks.

 

[Glen Contrarian]

Interesting article on what works. From a practical business perspective.



//http://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/29/gun-control-isnt-the-answer-we-already-know-how-to-stop-the-violence-commentary.html

And your reference is wrong - it wasn't Clinton's extra 100K cops who brought down the homicide rate. They helped somewhat, but as the above reference shows, it didn't make that much of a difference. What's more, it wasn't the "let's enforce the laws" attitude because the War on Drugs (and all the silly crap that's gone with it, like the apparently-pretty-doggone-racist motivation behind the more-jail-time-for-crack-than-powdered-cocaine laws) has only resulted in America being the world's #1 prison state, both in terms of total numbers AND in percentage of population...

...most of whom have to get out of jail someday...and thanks to all the work experience and education that they never got thanks to our out-of-control let's-get-tough jail-'em-all-and-let-God-sort-'em-out attitude, many of them will only engage in recidivism.

 

[Bootlace]

The article is pretty informative, but the GOP is well known to stop money from going to communities to build up police so that they can enforce the existing laws better.

I agree it's a decent article, but, according to the media, actually enforcing the law isn't something the violent inner city wants. Bean bags, tazers, billy clubs, bullets, and prison/jail overcrowding become fodder for the left to scream excessive force, racial profiling, police brutality, cruel and unusual punishment, et al. It wasn't too many years ago where a mere horse thief was hanged in the town square and people actually brought their kids to provide an object lesson for them.

Today we don't even prosecute prohibited persons when they attempt to buy a gun and fail the background check. People that have been arrested for felonies have their charges reduced thus are eligible for early release back to society. It isn't so much about funding as it is about the left insisting we punish criminals by demanding we spank them with a feather pillow.