“The answer is simple. Execute all convicted drug dealers, from street level to kingpin. No plea bargains or slap-on-the-wrist prison sentences. It will not take too many well-publicized executions to encourage criminals to seek another line of work!”
Our system of due process and presumption of innocence can never be as great a threat to a drug dealer’s life as are his competitors - yet dealers continue to deal, and when one dies or is imprisoned another springs up to take is place.
“when one dies or is imprisoned another springs up to take is place.”
The warrior mystique and the thug mystique have at least one thing in common: the willingness to face death. This is usually accompanied by a groundless certainty that it will be the other fellow who shuffles off this mortal coil, and not one’s self.
The only thing that will deter thugs is actual death, never merely the threat of death. Until we understand that, we will never take effective measures to solve the thug problem.