I’m dismayed that your proposal to fix crime in our country is to lock more people away. Few countries in the world do a better job of it than we do, and still things like this happen every single day. Perhaps if we spent sometime considering what causes individuals to turn to crime instead of picking out floor patterns for new prisons you want to fill we could get somewhere. Locking away every criminal without focusing on causation (education, poverty, culture) is like trying to put toothpaste back in the tube; you can spend a lot of time and effort doing it, but it’s not going to get you very far.

My sincere condolences to Taylor’s family and the community that is feeling this loss. There are few players that I have enjoyed watching more.

Do you have your Senator Warner tribute yet?

I have no doubt people with axes will fire up their grinders on both sides of any number of arguments that can be made when tragedies like this strike.

Urban black culture warriors, gun control activists, right-to-bear activists, drug warriors, law and order types, athletes are kids with too much of this and not enough that…, and all the rest.

There is always more to the story than most of us are willing to seek out.

If only we would. There might be a few less axes to grind.

And the beat goes on.

It is also a very good illustration of what happens when you bring a knife to a gun fight.

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I really like when we turn these guys out on the streets to make room for the petty criminals and non-violent drug offenders.