re: Inner city violence, and how to get rid of it.

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It's not even the drugs that are the root cause. These kids are all messed up before they ever get caught up in drugs.

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Part of that is the lack of father figures around...because they are in prison for drugs.

Yeah I'm sure they would have stuck around and been good fatherly figures to their kids if they weren't in prison for drug offenses.

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These kids are all messed up before they ever get caught up in drugs.

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It's not the drugs that make them kill. It is the fact that black market economies do not have courts and lawyers to resolve their differences. Gangs don't meet for arbitration. Their only method of resolving disputes is violence. The gangs start early. 2nd graders are full of questions like "how old is the world?" "Where do babies come from?" "Why is the sky blue?" Somewhere between 4th and 6th grade, children lose their curiosity about the world, and resent learning of any kind. "Why do I have to learn this?" "Will I ever use this?" "How does this help my life?" They see a life style to emulate on television, on their radios, in their magazines. They know few people who have real jobs, and those who do have jobs work long hours in shitty service positions for next to no money. Those who don't work recieve handouts. They see the handouts as easier. Since they don't need jobs, they don't see the need to get good grades in school, so they don't study, and don't want to learn, because what middle and high schools teach is basically useless to someone who has no interest in going to college. They become disingaged.

Welfare works like this: if you lack means, they give you everything. However, if you save too much money by being responsible and getting a job, not only do they cut you off, but they make you pay it all back. So, if you try to become independent, they take everything you have and put you back at square one. However, if you don't keep your money in a bank, and you get your money on the black market, it doesn't count against you. The government can't punish you for money it doesn't know you have. So, the government takes care of your basic needs (food, housing, healthcare, phone service, ect) and the illicit income can be used as disposable income (alcohol, clothing, electionics, cars, ect). Of course, owning anything counts against you, but leasing doesn't.

Basically, the entirety of our welfare and tax code encourages people to:
A. never save money
B. lease, not own
C. have illegal income
D. never work
E. slum lords neglect their properties
F. don't do well in school
G. never use banks
H. never have decent credit
I: Have as many kids as possible (you get paid per kid)
J: Never get married (2 single parents get more money than a married couple with the same number of kids)
K: and never try to get out of poverty

It's a trap. It's always been a trap.

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Send in the national guard. Patrol the worst neighborhoods nightly like Englewood (9 people shot there since 5pm yesterday)

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This avenue would be a good starting point

1. Ban Section 8 or at the very least large swaths of it.
2. Enforce "broken windows theory" harshly.
3. Police profiling using compstat.

None of those 3 will ever really be done these days though.... Because "racist".

Liberal pc culture is destroying these neighborhoods. Kinda ironic in a sense.

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Public executions

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And when the condemned is being brought up for the deed, have "Renegade" playing in the background.

Excellent list, Bob. The key is that it has to be a generational breaking of the cycle.
There is a very good argument for being on welfare. If you don't have a HS education and you get the equivalent of $15 an hour in various forms of welfare and subsidies for housing and energy then why would you give that up for a $10 an hour job at Burger King?

The answer is your children. They will see Mommy wake up early in the morning, get dressed appropriately and go to work. As opposed to seeing Mommy sleep till noon and then watch her stories on TV all day.

Children mimic what they see you do more than what they hear you tell them.

Give them all a rifle, a pistol, and 10k rounds. They'll kill themselves off. No mo crime.

Declare national state of emergency and have the National Guard policing the streets, going house to house speaking with every member of the community to let them know that they are there to protect them and provide a safe environment for their children. Drug dogs units everywhere. Stop and frisk.