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RuthBaderG t1_j61abjk wrote

Reply to comment by TheSpektrModule in GOP delegate: Hesitation to back SA Bates' tougher gun sentences plan is 'irresponsible' by TheSpektrModule

Sure let’s keep trying what we’ve been doing for the last 50 years that hasn’t worked

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XxCloudSephiroth69xX t1_j61e6wx wrote

Baltimore has not been giving significant jail time to gun offenders at any point in recent history, so they can't really "keep" doing it. One of the city's last homicide victims had 4 gun arrests by the ripe old age of 25. If he had actually been held for one of the more recent ones he'd still be alive.

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TheSpektrModule OP t1_j61h6hv wrote

> that hasn’t worked

Until the last few years crime rates in the United States had been dropping at a remarkable rate for decades, decades that just happened to coincide with the rise of so-called mass incarceration.

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