And no, this doesn't include MAGA Republicans or "right-wing extremism"...as if that's a thing.
No. This is about something more obvious to most Americans, and particularly Americans in especially seedy areas around the country. Crime, and what we should be doing about it.
For far too long, the crime situation in this country has worsened, and I don't think it would be difficult to show it's worsened at a greater rate since Our Doddering Moron In Chief was illegitimately installed to be Head Party Puppet of the Democratic Party. Democrats have a history of enabling unlawful behaviors of all sorts and actual criminal behavior is not excluded. In their never ending attempt to grab and secure political power, they've put the law-abiding at serious risk through their racist pandering for votes. Indeed, most of their bullshit push for Criminal Justice Reform/Prison Reform is nothing more than lowering expectations of those for whom higher/stricter expectations are required if one has the least bit of common sense. It's difficult to figure on where to begin with this issue, since there is so much wrong in our country today due to those anti-American leftists, so I'm just going to shotgun some ideas for improving life for the law-abiding and in doing so, some of the problems caused by Dem pandering will be exposed along the way. So, in no particular order:
1. It seems every State's District Attorney or top prosecutor whose campaign was funded or supported by George Soros is a piece of shit. Those like George Gascon in LA, Kim Foxx of Cook County, IL...these bastards need to be fired immediately, if not also prosecuted for the deaths which occurred by virtue of their lax law enforcement.
2. Any municipality or state which raised the amount of the value of that which assholes will steal and not be charged as a felony needs to be reversed and that amount should be lower than it was prior. Stealing is not "victimless" or any other such lefty crap. If a punk lifts a candy bar, he should be arrested, charged, convicted and sentenced in some way...even if it's just one more item on his rap sheet. We now have groups of assholes flooding into stores to lift whatever they can carry and split, emptying shelves and little is done to find and prosecute these kids. That has to stop.
I would also not be opposed to shop owners literally opening fire on these gangs and too damned bad should one of the thieves die on the spot. When their relatives or friends whine the kid shouldn't have died for stealing a purse, they should be ignored and possibly held accountable for not raising their kids better.
3. Gun control laws need to be erased, except for the obvious cases of convicted criminals and insane people being denied the right to possess in any way a firearm of any type. Indeed, they should be denied the "right" to carry any weapon of any kind, and any cop should have discretion as to whether an item in their possession is kept for the purpose of being a weapon.
The law-abiding should not be deprived of their right to arm up. Yeah...once in a while a law-abiding person might abuse that right, unjustly shooting another. That's a trade off worth taking given how many assholes use firearms with criminal intent regardless of the fact they are supposed to be denied the right to own or carry them. The rare case of an unjust or accidental shooting is not argument for gun control laws and given the rampant rise in violent crime, I much prefer the average law-abiding citizen live while his oppressor dies for his troubles.
4. Actually a part of the above, I have always had a problem with "common sense" gun control, as that's just asshole-speak for "infringing" on the right to keep and bear. Registering, permitting...all of that are forms of infringement. The 2nd simply protects the right. Anyone who believes these types of regulations are not infringements or acceptable forms of it are assholes, too. Here's how it should work:
In this age of technology, there should be a national data-base accessible to any licensed firearms dealer, as well as by all branches of law-enforcement. The only people on this data-base should be convicted criminals and those certified as mentally incompetent to trust with dangerous weapons. Period. If one goes to purchase a firearm and one's name does not show up in the data-base, that person gets to purchase the gun and no official record of his ownership should be kept in any way. So long as this person remains a law-abiding citizen, there's no reason any branch of government should be privy to his ownership. To have any gun control means the very entity against whom the 2nd is meant to defend is calling the shots. That's stupid. But as every government entity has as its first responsibility to protect the people, denying weapons to criminals and crazies should be their only concern when it comes to guns.
5. Support law-enforcement. If we have good people in government, those departments of law-enforcement under their authority should also be comprised of good people willing to do the job of enforcing the law as it is meant to be done. I don't think it'll ever be possible to pay them what their lives are worth...since their lives are always on the line...but I think most take pride in doing the job well and they should never be made out to be the bad guy any time some thug dies in their custody due to his combative actions. Cops should be well armed, well trained and never required to do anything which is itself unlawful or unconstitutional, as we've been seeing with the FBI lately.
The only people who want to defund the cops in any way are criminals, their enablers and race-hustlers. People in the worst parts of town are generally trapped their by a variety of reasons and circumstances in their lives and they don't want to duck bullets or have their little kids killed by stray ones. They don't want their women and girls raped. They don't want to be mugged. They don't want their kids dying from crappy drugs. If the cops are well supported by the governments who employ them, the people will feel more confident that the cops support them.
6. Re-instate "qualified immunity". Yeah...some cops might abuse this policy. But I don't care for putting good people at risk because of assholes abusing their liberties. Cops need to be considered innocent until proven guilty just as the law is supposed to treat everyone, and qualified immunity serves that end. Split second decisions can go wrong and once in a while tragedy happens. Unless a cop in such a situation can be proven to have been negligent or incompetent or criminal to an extent that someone died unjustly as a result, the cop should be presumed to have acted honorably.
Typically, the person who died wrongfully was still doing something which attracted the attention of the cops, and then responded to that attention in a combative manner. It is almost outside of reality that an actual innocent person was killed by a cop for no reason.
7. Always treat criminals as criminals. The onus is on them to work toward removing the stigma their own actions brought upon them. Thus, prisons should never be pleasant in any way. I don't mean we should go out of our way to make them dangerous to inmates, but no pleasantries should be available while doing time, especially for the more violent and repetitive criminals. There should be nothing about prison or jails which would suggest anything less than discomfort, suffering and punishment for the crimes which led to one's incarceration. Make the concept of "easy time" a fiction. To wit:
--Overcrowding should not be a great concern. If we haven't space to house all who break our laws, then sleeping ten to a cell is the criminal's problem, not ours.
--"Pandemics" should never have been a reason for early release. Again, no one forced a criminal to break the law.
--No television except for closed-circuit used for educational purposes, where one has proven themselves worthy of inclusion in educational efforts.
--Nothing in the libraries...should one exist at all...but educational books, religious books, classic literature and the like. No porn, or anything remotely pornographic. Of course, not many can actually read, so...
--No body-building options of any kind should be available. Ever. If some cons choose to prey upon weaker cons, they should be punished more severely to an extent which would preclude them from doing so again, and others from taking their place.
7b. This one comes up occasionally and it drives me nuts. When a person is convicted of a crime and sentence is passed, they are said to be "paying their debt to society". Some think it is money well spent to offer criminals training for jobs while in prison. Supposedly the recidivism rate of such people is better if they have training for a job when they're released. That may be so. I don't much care. They can always be thrown back in jail if they return to a life of crime. But let's assume that belief is based on actual fact. Not one of those imprisoned...those born in this country...were denied a free education through high school. They are not deserving of that which the law-abiding pay to get. Thus, if they avail themselves of training while in prison, their paychecks must be garnished until that extra debt is paid. If this results in any cons rejecting the option of training, so be it. But I doubt it will if they believe their problem is a lack of training.
8. End "no cash bail" and raise bail for repeat offenders, violent crimes and the like. If one can't afford bail or a good lawyer, try not breaking the law.
9. Body cams were pushed by those who bought the "police brutality" and "racist cop" narratives. They've more often than not shown bad behavior on the part of those detained by cops and as such, cops taking no shit should never be regarded as unjust brutality. Their lives and health are more important than the assholes who choose to be combative. Obeying lawful directives by cops would have prevented so many deaths race-hustling assholes portray as police brutality.
At this point, it should be clear: punks, thugs and assholes do not deserve considerations they are now getting. It is this nonsensical, mostly racially motivated policy which has led to our current crime problem. The law-abiding should not have to live in fear. Assholes should. They should fear repercussions because the repercussions are intentionally severe enough to dissuade assholes from continuing their asshole behavior, and to encourage potential assholes to avoid manifestations of their assholery. Let's move on...
10. Homeless camps need to be outlawed. The homeless are responsible for a certain degree of crime and their presence results in a drop in property values and business. No one should have to walk through such areas to go to work or to patronize local businesses. This seems unChristian, but enabling whatever these people rather than mandating they get treatment for whatever their problem is is less so. Most are nut cases and they need to be institutionalized...for their own good and for the good of the community which is threatened by their presence.
11. Close the f**king border. We are NOT in any way obliged to allow anyone into the country. Our government is obliged to put us first and our protection and safety is our government's prime directive. Trump was making progress on resolving the issues which led to illegal entry, through both the building of the wall as well as agreements with our foreign neighbors. He, unlike the Democratic Party and too many in the GOP, actually put America first. Biden reversed it all and the flood of illegals has been a horror to our nation.
We should be deporting ALL illegals. If someone can come up with a better way for true refugees from danger to appeal for entry, do so. Everyone else gets booted out immediately upon exposure.
For years...certainly before the Biden presidency led to record amounts of illegals invading our nation...the number "11 million" was commonly bandied about. Many, including some conservatives like Michael Medved, would lament that we can't round up all 11 million and send them back over the border. That's always been bullshit. We don't address the issue as if it's all or none. We don't address the issue by creating a new "pathway to citizenship" as if there already isn't one. What we do is seek to identify as many as we can...constantly and with extreme prejudice...and send them back over the border. (What Mexico does with them I don't care.) Each and every time we come across an illegal, that person must be placed under arrest and detained until transport can be brought forth to send them over. If possible, we must confiscate their property, all of which is obtained illegally by virtue of their illegal presence in this country. The more we do these things, the more the world will learn illegal entry won't be tolerated and the amnesty no longer exists. Maybe a reward for exposing invaders would help.
Some people sent back will be otherwise decent folk, no doubt. That is, decent aside from the fact they broke our laws and crapped on our sovereignty. That's too bad. Again. We have a path. Get in line or don't come. We need to know who's coming in and have some way to know who to deny. We can't do that when our borders aren't secure.
12. More often than not, law enforcement knows who the worst assholes are. They know who the leaders of various gangs and criminal organizations are, as well as their soldiers. We as a society must declare war on these people, and by that I'm not being hyperbolic. I mean an actual war, destroying as many of these people as possible until the remnants throw up their hands in unconditional surrender. I can't say this enough: I don't care about the suffering of the bad guys. If we have them dead to rights, them being dead isn't at all a bad thing for the sake of the rest of us. And I don't mind if this is done under the table, taking out assholes in a covert manner which can mean less money spent in court. It's time the assholes live in fear. One can call this fantasy...one can say this will never happen. It needs to.
13. In that same vein, I wouldn't be opposed to covert ops in dealing with the cartels. When speaking of assholes, they are among the worst in the world. Tales of decapitated victims along the streets of Mexican towns are not make-believe. Certainly there are good people in Mexico who would welcome such aid. Perhaps the government would be more likely to do their jobs if they had such backing. I don't know. I don't know how bad and widespread the corruption is. I'm sure the truly corrupt in government are well known and thus they are targets, too.
This is really a partial list. I could easily go on, and will likely add to this list. Again, the goal here is the safety of the law-abiding. That takes great priority over the "rights" of the criminals. If one wishes to regard any of this as unAmerican or unChristian, such a person needs to explain where were the true Americans and Christians in our governments when this crap could have been nipped in the bud? Governments...especially ours...are created to benefit the people. Our government needs to get to it.
ATTENTION!! I've added things to this post and very possibly will again.
