Thoughts

Government policy is a major contributor to crime, the level of which has risen a full third since 1970. Government has discouraged personal defense, upset community stability, and failed to provide a police and criminal justice system which effectively deters criminal activity. Victimless crime laws have stimulated crime.
We must stop subsidizing crime, by repealing victimless crime statutes. They will restore the natural right of personal defense, and allow neighborhoods to develop in a stable fashion. We must emphasize that justice is a matter between the criminal and victim - that the convicted criminal owes restitution to the victim, not to society or State. Thus we must urge local police and courts to focus upon restitution as a sentencing measure, increasing the deterrence and humaneness of criminal justice. W must halt punitive regulation of private security protection, and give greater recognition for the use of private arbitration. Those who initiate force and fraud against fellow human beings have always been with us, and probably always will be. What makes a society civilized, though, is the determination to reduce such vicious acts to a minimum.