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Reasonableman 2 points ago +2 / -0

"Gun-free zones" are killing zones for criminals.

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Reasonableman 2 points ago +3 / -1

The Nuremberg Tribunal was the first court to establish atrocity law. Atrocity is defined as widespread and systematic rape, torture, murder, and genocide. The war crimes tried in this court set the base line for atrocity law, not the ideal for perfection. Nobody knows what punishment will prevent people from committing atrocities (i.e. you can only execute a man once even though he may have murdered hundreds of thousands), but the study of knowledge gained during the investigations and trials begins to attempt to understand the process which leads to the truism that, "every person has the capacity to commit atrocity." It is that knowledge which may help us to understand that any given situation is getting ripe for atrocities and perhaps we can find a way to avoid the situation from escalating.