The problem is not with the justice system, it is with the people who decide to break the law and then, so tragically, are punished according to the law they chose - CHOSE - to break.
More criminals, not less, deserve to be removed from society, black, white, or otherwise.
>The problem is not with the justice system, it is with the people who decide to break the law and then, so tragically, are punished according to the law they chose - CHOSE - to break.
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>More criminals, not less, deserve to be removed from society, black, white, or otherwise.
There is a problem, however, when you consider illegitimate laws. For example, my state has a “no firearms on universities” law [misdemeanor], HOWEVER the state’s Constitution prohibits any law abridging the right to keep and bear arms for self-defense. The aforementioned statute does exactly that.
This is not an irrelevant consideration as it leads directly to considering things like the “ex-felons cant have firearms” laws which abridge the right to self defense, or the “domestic violence” laws which can be so ill-defined that a good angry yelling-match would qualify.
Given the volume of laws promulgated even before the present Congress’s madness, and regulations implementing them, many of which carry criminal sanctions, are you absolutely sure *you* aren’t a felon?
People break laws because they do things the laws prohibit, not necessarily because they chose to break laws.
In ancient Israel, where were 613 laws, and studying them was popular form of piety, one could reasonably hold that law-breakers chose to break the law. Not so in modern America: every four years Congress passes more laws than God gave the Israelites in the entire Torah. They change all the time, and instead of running one sentence each like His did, they give us multiple-thousand-page “laws”, and that doesn’t include state laws and city ordinances.