Do you think Adam Lanza was thinking about the law when he did what he did?
I live in a bad area. One of the kids I know here comes up to chat when I am outside for smokes. Some months ago he showed me a sawed off shotgun he had hidden in his pants. He is 17 and I am guessing he stole it (said it was his uncles'). He smokes pot and drinks as well.
He and his friends steal things and sell them (mostly bikes but sometimes guns and tools).
I doubt a day goes by he is not breaking some law or other, and I know, off hand, 4 other kids like him I see daily here.
I have witnessed people, time and again, breaking into abandoned homes here and the cops do nothing. I caught two guys breaking into my old house, got their plate (was a dealer plate), called the cops, and when they finally came out did not even write a report or record their plate number (I later found the dealer and found out that the plate was stolen - you can get dealer plate info here in Ohio from the BMV).
With a phone call I can buy just about any drug, weapons, etc and have them delivered to my damn front door.
Make more laws, let's see how well they get enforced, especially in poorer areas of town. Once a week for months, and that is no exaggeration, I saw people breaking into my x's house that was on the foreclosure list and called the cops. Not once, ever, was anyone arrested ---people said they were with the bank...they were not, cops did not check and told them to put things back and move on. They had a key - Bank of America uses 2 keys nationwide for locks they put on foreclosures and lots of people have them. The cops see they have a key, shrug, and tell them without the paperwork they can't take things.
I have watched people I can tell are career criminals do this time and again around here. I have even taken photos of them doing it - and nothing gets done.
Laws do not make us safer unless they are enforced, and we need to focus on that first - but it takes time and a lot of money (read more taxes).
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