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RE: "a MANDATORY life sentence"...

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Mr Underhill

In Reply to: RE: "a MANDATORY life sentence"... posted by mkuller on October 20, 2011 at 20:41:31

mkuller,

I see smoking & drink in a different light to hard drugs.

My aim would be to take the money out of the business, and make the risks in getting and selling the drugs, outside of the legal routes, so high that people would not do it - hence the mandatory term.

Many people I have dealt with are users who deal to pay for their next fix. The free supply would remove them from the market.

Currently we have dealers giving away loss-leaders to 'make' new customers.

Hopefully the use of this mandatory term would be very rare. But these people are literally stealing lives.

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I'm not convinced... - mkuller 09:07:18 10/21/11 (1)
...harsh sentences reduce crime - criminals don't think they'll get caught.

Look at all the people on death row.
- Nothing is foolproof - Mr Underhill 02:41:58 10/22/11 (0)
  ...but does it work on the majority?
  
  If it doesn't - change.
  
  Which is precisely where we are with current legislation! Doesn't work, but we stick with it.

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