“I’ve got to think there are better public safety options than that.”
There is a better public safety option.
1. Drastically increase penalties.
ie. Other countries with less crime cut the hand of a robber off. Public lashings for graffiti. Public executions. You get my point.
2. Make the punishment fit the crime.
Ie. If a person steels $100.00 he repays it or gets to break rocks at $10.00 an hour until he pays it off.
3. Make the punishment immediate and public. When a trial is done the punishment is executed.
4. Expedite capital punishment.
The punishment has to be BOTH cruel and unusual to be unconstitutional. As long as it is only cruel or unusual it is constitutional.
I own and carry a gun and have two different CCW permits from two states. I am well trained to use that weapon but would give it up if you could get all the guns from the bad guys. Other counteries accomplish that by being much more strict to abusers. Unfortunatly I would be willing to bet you would not support those “better public safety options” either. There is no winning with you. What are your ideas?
