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Originally posted by Cerek the Barbaric:
Crime prevention is a difficult goal to accomplish in reality. Because until the person or persons actually commit the crime, one can never be sure if they are actually planning to do it or not. When preemptive measures are put in place, some innocents will invariably be caught in the web also. That is the sad and unfortunate price that has to be paid in order to prevent another tragedy such as Columbine.
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Yes, that's true. I don't agree with it at all though. There's only so much "prevention" that can be put in place before it becomes a worse problem than the crimes. What they should have done is
investigate and determine if there was a true crime being planned. Unfortunately, real work like that is terribly unappealing to most law agencies. Much better to sweep all possible problem people into a cell and sort them out later.
Here's a quote from someone famous and wise:
"Those who would trade liberties for security deserve neither liberty, nor security."
It makes sense, doesn't it? There's no use in putting additions on the legislative house if you're going to let the foundation crumble in the process!
[ 09-05-2003, 11:31 AM: Message edited by: Sir Kenyth ]