Mavdog:
"hmm, so now you are saying that we should make jail more of a hell hole so they are more effective in deterence?"
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No, I did not say that. What I am saying is that the higher range of possible punishments under the law should be applied by the judicial system when a crime is committed with a gun. Then, the penal system should not let them go early. They should get the highest possible punishment and not get out of it early.
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"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." -Thomas Jefferson
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