If you have 30 percent of the population policing the other 70 percent, you can achieve what some Americans consider to be an impossible goal - getting guns out of the hands of street criminals. Police routinely break into peoples homes and carry out searches, because warrants are completely unheard of.
In Britain, leftists have called for long Kitchen knives to be banned. That is something that Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia never attempted. If you thought that 20th Century leftists who gave the world Stalinism and Nazism were the most oppressive people in human history, the 21st Century leftists may come up with surprises that may shock your grandchildren. You can do something today, to secure the future of your grandchildren.
Germany and Russia just “Outsourced” all of the crimes they commited against their own people to Concentration Camps and Gulags in Siberia.
Yay! We can all be safe, well the state can be safe FROM the people, and since people make up the state then we are all safe, yay!!! Thank the commisar for giving us all glorious safety.
Actually, the Nazis and the Reds did NOT have low incidences of street crime - they had controlled REPORTING of common, or street crime. The USSR also didn’t report on fires, floods, etc. People living in an adjacent neighborhood to the event wouldn’t even know that it had happened.
Must be something to that whole deterent thing. You screw up, you die.
I’m always amazed at how Americans who look back at slavery with horror and disdain can so readily agree to allow government to be our master, and the people be slaves.