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Originally Posted by adc
I don't really want to keep this going but will answer your questions.
Yes if my kids were dumb enough to get involved with drugs and broke the law I would expect them to do the 10 years. Now I feel confident that I would raise them right so they would not get involved.
As for the States and their mandatory laws from what I have read they never were as severe as I am proposing. Therefore they were never enough of a deterent to stop people from selling and using, using especially, drugs.
I will say if you are going to keep the piddly little drug laws we have now then you likely won't do much to curb people's use. That is why I want the punishment to be very severe to actually make people consider not using the drugs.
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I know based off your views that you won't like Jon Oliver but watch this:
You said earlier in the thread that you followed the election this year and that makes you more educated, yet you say stuff like "from what I have read they never were as severe as I am proposing." How about you actually do your homework to be a more informed voter.
Even the lawmakers that introduced mandatory minimums are now saying that it does not work. It doesn't deter it, it just makes the jails overloaded. There is a reason they are getting rid of minimums down south, when we are trying to implement them here now that it's been proven to fail?
in the video you see people who have Life without parole for having 3 ounces of meth.
Just look at minimum sentences - a lot of them are 10+ year minimums.
http://famm.org/wp-content/uploads/2...Fed-MMs-NW.pdf
Heck even look at wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandat...#United_States
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In 1973, New York State introduced mandatory minimum sentences of 15 years to life imprisonment for possession of more than 4 oz (112 g) of a hard drug.
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