We prosecute property crimes every day. For better or worse. And it's far more humane and less expensive to pay restitution than it is to send people to our failed, massively expensive and criminogenic prisons.https://twitter.com/bay_snark/status/1274737205299122178 …
Competition can vastly reduce it however. Certainly enough so, that the reason for violence over it is eliminated. Few people get killed in the tobacco or alcohol trade today, thats what we should emulate.
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Given that alcohol may be the greatest destroyer of lives, my strong assumption is that this is absolutely not the model to be emulated.
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But bar owners buy sound systems, not automatic firearms. They listen to community feedback and care for their patrons. Seems worth emulating to me, prohibition of alcohol certainly wasn't.
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