and lethal force shouldn't be used unless absolutely necessary.
Why?
To elaborate, every time you tell me that a criminal's life matters, you are in effect telling me that a victim's life doesn't. I find that morally intolerable, and thus criminal's lives do not matter.
From my point of view the situation is already way past out of control. In the face of that, what you are suggesting is what leads to New York, where they don't have bail and just let all the violent maniacs back out on the street after giving them court dates they won't ever show up to.
A soft touch does not work. Ever. The spiking crime rates in well, every city in the country, make that abundantly clear. The only thing a soft touch does is incentivize these animals to create more victims.
And so I suggest we go in exactly the opposite direction.
Why?
To elaborate, every time you tell me that a criminal's life matters, you are in effect telling me that a victim's life doesn't. I find that morally intolerable, and thus criminal's lives do not matter.
From my point of view the situation is already way past out of control. In the face of that, what you are suggesting is what leads to New York, where they don't have bail and just let all the violent maniacs back out on the street after giving them court dates they won't ever show up to.
A soft touch does not work. Ever. The spiking crime rates in well, every city in the country, make that abundantly clear. The only thing a soft touch does is incentivize these animals to create more victims.
And so I suggest we go in exactly the opposite direction.