Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they don't apply to you.
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Crime is a product of social excess.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
Murder is not the crime of criminals, but that of law-abiding citizens.
Petty laws breed great crimes.
Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.
When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.
You will feel the full force of the law and if you are old enough to commit these crimes you are old enough to face the punishments. And to these people I would say this: you are not only wrecking the lives of others, you are potentially wrecking your own life too.
The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime, about race in crime, and about poverty in crime.
There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not.
Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.