Check the number of people killed each year by drunk/impaired drivers. Illegal as DUI is, it happens and it claims innocent lives. Our cars go 120, 140, 160 MPH but, do we drive that fast? Most law abiding citizens don’t. Our national speed limit rarely exceeds 75 MPH so we depend on common sense to prevent people from driving at the speeds attainable by their vehicles. How many speeding tickets are issued annually in the USA?
Drugs are illegal but, we have a “war on drugs”, why, because criminals sell them and criminals buy them so, another failed policy. Check the number of people dying annually due to drug overdoses and those incarcerated for drug offenses and realize, criminalizing doesn’t stop criminals.
If people intend to harm others in violent ways do you think they won’t because they don’t have access to firearms? It doesn’t seem to work where people don’t have firearms does it? Most Americans would love a society that is peaceful but………..as in all countries and nations, there will always be those with a blatant disregard for life. There will always be people breaking laws and there will always be new laws written that too, shall be broken.
We take God out of our schools, we allow our children to play violent video games, we promote violence through Hollywood and most of all, we sensationalize crime and criminals through our mainstream media outlets. I mean, after all, who would tune in to a station called “The Good News Channel”? Nearly nobody because we tune in to see the murder, the mayhem, the corruption and the violence.
We have a tremendous social issue here, this I certainly agree. We do not care for the mentally disabled, we do not rehabilitate when we incarcerate so yes, we have problems. No ONE law or set of laws will stop those that intend harm to others, not here and not anywhere. We definitely have problems but above all, we have the Constitution of the United States with its amendments and like it or not, this great country was founded on this very document. Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness and IN GOD WE TRUST!