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Originally Posted by Just a guy
There seems to be two dynamics here. The first per Seb et al is the people that live in a violent life/world and for lack of a better term “stuff happens” versus going specifically looking for trouble.
The second are the career criminals that attack/rob/kill outside of the violent life/world. These are the ones that I believe everyone else is looking at. It may be helpful to recognize and acknowledge these differences and discuss them as separate issues.
My opinion
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the trouble is it is never really that cut and dry, you are usually going to get a little from column a and a little from column b and in some ways the violent robber is less of a threat to society than the delusional alcoholic who violently lashes out, the robber just wants your money, the real question is whether Canada is doing a reasonable job of dealing with violent crime in general, not just looking at one horrific likely never to be repeated event and making policy based on our revulsion for that and our general 'feelings' that crime needs to be dealt with and there is some magic solution we have never tried before, locking people up for long stretches, that will fix things