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Solving violence in the U.S. — Remove
Democrat-run cities and bring back asylums
One of the most common strategies used by the political left to attack 2nd Amendment supporters is to ramp up the anti-gun hype every time a crime involving a gun is committed. However, it's very important to understand that this is not only about removing gun rights for leftists — it's also about creating a false association in the public consciousness that guns = crime. That is to say, they want to condition people to believe that once guns are gone, violent crime will be gone also.
This has not been the case in countries like the U.K. Despite
incredibly strict gun laws that make it impossible for anyone other than
upper-middle class and wealthy citizens to own any firearm, violent crime, rape
and homicides have been rising
in the U.K. with knife attacks increasing by 80 percent. While it is
technically more difficult to murder a person with a knife, it's also a lot
easier for larger, stronger criminals and gangs to succeed in harming people
when those people have no equalizer.
In the U.S., violent crimes and murders are exponentially higher
in Democrat-run cities, many of them with increased gun control measures. In
fact, of the top
30 most violent cities in the U.S., 27 of them are Democrat-controlled. Wherever leftists
dominate politically, violence, theft, rape and murder are sure to follow.
Though anti-gun proponents will try to cite high homicide stats in certain
conservative states like Texas, the majority of those crimes are in fact
committed in cities run by Dems.
Blue cities are dragging red states and the rest of the country
down. According to the statistics, in theory, if the public was to replace all
Democrat cities with conservative leadership, crime rates would immediately
plunge in the U.S. by virtue of policy.
But what is it specifically about Democrat policies that leads to
far higher crime? There are other trends to consider, such as incarceration
rates in any given state or county, severity of punishment for violent crimes,
and let's not forget a subject a lot of people don't want to talk
about: The separation of the mentally ill from the rest of society.
Leftists often support revolving door policies for criminals, reduced sentences
for violent crime IF the perpetrator is a minority and they are aggressively
opposed to incarceration for those with dangerous mental illness.
They're happy to take away the 2nd Amendment rights of law-abiding
Americans, but they have no interest in keeping violent criminals in prison or
keeping mentally unstable people away from normal society. Perhaps because
their goal is not to
reduce violence, but to simply eradicate gun ownership.
Incarceration does in fact work, far better than gun control does.
But in order to understand the incarceration rate and its effectiveness in
stopping violence, we have to look at two systems simultaneously — prison
incarceration and mental asylum incarceration.
One issue that is immediately noticeable is that prison numbers
spiked massively starting in the mid-1980s, after which homicide rates began to
plunge. Also, note that less incarceration in the early 1900s also coincides
with much higher murder rates across the nation. But what about that dip in
murders from the 1930s to the 1960s? What caused that?
Well, it's not necessarily an economic problem as many
progressives might suggest. The country was hitting peak prosperity in the
1920s and murder rates were still sky-high. On the opposite end, the system was
still in depression turmoil in the 1930s to 1940s, but homicide rates began to
fall. So, again, what caused violent crime to plunge in that era if it wasn't
an economic trigger? The only factor that seems to coincide with this
period of relative social peace is the sudden increase in psychiatric
incarceration from around the 1930s onward.
While prison rates remained mostly static between the mid-1930s to
the mid-1960s, the number of mental asylums holding dangerous patients was
growing. And, like magic, violence in the U.S. dropped off a cliff.
Incredibly, as asylums began to shut down in the 1960s-1970s,
murders jumped back once again to record highs. Without asylums and with low
prison incarceration, violence spread like wildfire, and it did not stop until
the mid-1980s when prison rates rocketed. In other words, the prison system and
the legal system had to pick up the slack when the mental asylums disappeared.
Finally, take note of the recent spike in homicides and violence
in the past few years. It matches almost exactly with falling incarceration
trends, mostly encouraged by Democrat policies in blue cities and blue states.
We also have minimal mental illness facilities in place to deal with the influx
of unstable people being released back into society by prisons. We are about
to repeat the
pattern of the early 1900s, with a lower prison population and no asylums
violence will likely continue to spiral out of control.
Now, to be sure, in the past there were some terrible practices
involving mental health imprisonment and it doesn't do anyone any good to
repeat those mistakes. In the early days of mental health, they cast a wide net
that caught a lot of dangerous people, but they also locked up anyone with
marginal mental problems as well. This led to some tragedies.
That said, it is foolish to dismiss the numbers; asylums worked.
They helped to reduce murders dramatically. Considering at least
1 percent of the human population has psychopathic traits and these people
cause at least 30 percent of all crime in the U.S., something has to be
done to address mental instability in our nation. Their odds of recidivism are
extremely high, and they will keep on committing the same crimes over and over
again until they are stopped.
This is the issue that the political left doesn't want to talk
about. They try to hide it with psychotropic medications and feel-good welfare
programs, but these things are clearly useless. Separating dangerous and insane
people from the rest of the population is the only sure method for saving lives
in the long run.
The solution is simple and twofold: Get rid of leftist leaders in
major cities that set violent repeat offenders free and bring back mental
health facilities to lock up the crazies if necessary. This is the only way to stop
the avalanche of violent crime that awaits Americans in the near future.
To truth and knowledge,
Brandon Smith
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Death
of the American City: 9 trends you need to know
The age of the American city is rapidly coming to an end. With
commercial real estate increasingly abandoned, and with retailers closing up
shop and fleeing Democrat-run cities, the utility of the city itself is rapidly
vanishing.
Importantly, in today's broadcast I predict we will see American refugees
fleeing the cities as critical infrastructure collapses. Those refugees will
flee into the suburbs and rural areas, seeking food and shelter.
In today's Brighteon Broadcast News, I cover the following nine
trends that indicate the collapse of America's cities.
See the full article and podcast here.
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3 comments:
Amen-we see crap holes like DC, Baltimore, NYC, San Fran, Chicago, etc. -all run into the ground
Got the radio I ordered from you-good deal-thanks
It's pretty obvious: Most Dem politicians are racist idiots unqualified to be a dog catcher let alone run a city [think DC or Chicago] - the goal is to keep us in their pen and/or divide everyone.
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