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Originally Posted by JoePa
I agree completely but a person has to be willing to open their heart and mind and actually look. It takes time and those willing to preach, teach and stay the course and where they have come up the impact can be huge but most don't want to and will never take the time to look. After all it takes a real effort and most prefer to be told what to think anymore. Josh McDowell and Lee Strobel both started out writing books , no short weekend effort, and talk about how long it took, even Christopher Hitchen's brother Peter has written about his transition from atheism to faith. Then there are the exception like Alister McGrath that writes about how it was biology and the cell that made him start his search. To paraphrase there are a million ways to walk to the door and open it to the One that knocks. They like and are comfortable in not knowing but that said we still need be prepared to give an answer but until they are interested in listening to the knocking their eyes and ears are covered and you will just give them an excuse to rant.
There is also a much larger gang and organized crime problem, I covered it earlier about how 80% of the violence and crime statistics can be attributed to that.Quote:
Originally Posted by 73hunter
https://www.oodmag.com/community/sho...=1#post1037767
Once the cities like Chicago (which has the worst gang problem, the most gun control laws) are taken out their number drops significantly in the per 100,000 and even with those included there are quite a few countries (often with strong gun control laws) that are far worse off. The gang culture needs to be addressed and where there have been successes there are drops in crime but there also needs to be police enforcing the laws and protecting. They have huge issues groups of racists marching calling for dead cops, political correctness not allowing them to profile etc. Even in the UK you see the impact of that...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...w-figures.html
He added: “Knife crime is up because police have been told to cut stop and search. That means members of the public who are carrying knives are not being found as much, and they’re using those weapons. It really is that simple.”
The ONS said overall crime recorded by the police rose by six per cent in the year to September, including a 27 per cent jump in violence against the person.
It isn't the grandma (regardless of colour) they are stopping, yet the police aren't supposed to use profiling but it is a useful tool in reality. Some call it racist but the reality is that some races (due to culture, especially the gang culture) are more proned to having "problematic" individuals. Those groups need both enforcement and help.
Ex. in Canada
http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/j...017/jan02.html
** I think for real change accountability and ending the Indian act would be needed and do you think any politician will attack that and those getting the $10B/year in welfare??? Canada has so many special classes of people and the Liberal's seem to actually be using that, just look at Justlied Trudeau himself, in listing provinces he misses Alberta (and sabotages Energy East... more Saudi oil for years) and then there is this ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA1yCIHMJwY
There needs to be:
1) alternatives to gangs
2) hope and education
3) police enforcement, presence and yes intimidation (that if they do the crime they do the time) not the current do the crime and laugh at the police. ** if a policeman just hears idiots ranting about dead police etc. do you think he is motivated to protect that community???
4) courts willing to put the criminal in jail for reasonable times and apply real sentences (I think the reimbursement plan some talk about should be implemented where they are forced to pay back the victims if possible should also be looked at)
