What can we do to reduce the murder rate?

Question

There is one type of person that commits 88% of all murders in the US. I'm not saying that I'm against this group existing, but I'm just wondering what we can do differently to change the way things are. Obviously, people in this group have something going on that makes them more likely to be violent. What is it and how can we stop it?

Answer 1

Take responsibility for raising our children. It is not the government's job, it is our job as parents. Get your kids to church. Teach them the difference between right and wrong. Turn off the TV!

Better kids grow into better adults.

The only thing the government can do is to make committing murder a fatal decision. Why don't people jump out of airplanes without a parachute? Because there is a 100% chance that you will die. If we make it 100% that you will die if you commit murder, then how many people will choose to commit murder? Death is the ultimate deterrent. The death penalty is not a deterrent now because it is almost never used (60 executions per year versus 17,000 murders). I guarantee you that if you execute 10,000 murderers in one year, the next year there will be almost 0 murders (you can't ever get to 0 because there will always be evil and crazy people).

Answer 2

Mandatory execution within 48 months of sentencing.

If nothing else, it weeds out the repeaters

Answer 3

Allow unrestricted open carry of firearms.

An armed society is a polite and law-abiding society.

Richard

Answer 4

We can stop smacking criminal's hands and punish them.

In many countries, they have very strict and harsh rules for those who commit crimes; steal - cut off a hand, rape - you can only imagine.

Why can't we be like other countries who know what to do with their criminals.......................

Answer 5

Kill fewer people.

Let men have more s*x.

Answer 6

Honestly I don't believe that murder will ever be stopped there is a million reasons some one might commit such a crime. There has been murder from the time or Adam and Eve when One of their children killed another.  

Answer 7

you could castrate baby boys instead of simply circumsize them I guess, if you are alleging that just because they are male, they are murderers in the making.

or, you could use your brain and realize that even if there are 60,000 murderers among us, there are 150 million males in the US, and that means 4.0 × 10^6 % of males are NOT murderers.

Is that an unacceptable rate to you?