Violent Crimes Quotes

Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs.

Michael Badnarik

Humor, Marijuana Prohibition, Alcohol

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Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.

Ted Nugent

Gun, America, Citizens

"CNN's Piers Morgan Battles with Ted Nugent on Guns, Says Second Amendment Almost Killed Gabby Giffords". www.newsbusters.org. May 19, 2011.

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If violent crime is to be curbed, it is only the intended victim who can do it. The felon does not fear the police, and he fears neither judge nor jury. Therefore what he must be taught to fear is his victim.

Jeff Cooper

Judging, Police, Doe

Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.44, Paladin Press

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So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates?

Hugh Mackay

Fall, Games, Media

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Probably fewer than 2% of handguns and well under 1% of all guns will ever be involved in a violent crime. Thus, the problem of criminal gun violence is concentrated within a very small subset of gun owners, indicating that gun control aimed at the general population faces a serious needle-in-the-haystack problem.

Gary Kleck

Gun, Criminals, Population

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Defenders of the status quo will often try to mislead the public by saying, "Just look at our state prisons: nearly half of the inmates are violent offenders. This system is about protecting the public from violent crime." This type of statement is highly misleading.

Michelle Alexander

Trying, Looks, Half

Source: www.truth-out.org

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Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.

Rick Perry

Law, Abiding, Citizens

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If Americans actually have the conversation about our disastrous prison policies, we'll understand the trends all move in very dangerous directions: we lock up more people, for less violent crime, at ever greater expense, breeding more dangerous criminals who often come out unemployable, violent and isiolated.

Dahlia Lithwick

Moving, People, Locks

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We need to send a clear message to gang members that violent crime will not be tolerated.

Tim Bishop

Gang Members, Needs, Messages

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In rural areas the majority of the victims of violent crime know their assailants (indeed, are probably married to them); in cities, the killer and the mugger come out of the anonymous dark, their faces unrecognized, their motives obscure.

Jonathan Raban

Dark, Cities, Majority

Jonathan Raban (2017). “Soft City: Picador Classic”, p.13, Pan Macmillan

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I believe that the death penalty is the ultimate deterrent to violent crime...period.

Troy King

Believe, Death Penalty, Crime

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A majority of the crime in the downtown is property crime. There have been a few larcenies and burglaries, but robberies and assaults are not common in the downtown. There isn't usually any violent crime.

Greg Smith

Majority, Downtown, Common

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After more than two decades of trying to destroy the firearms rights of more than 80 million law-abiding American gun owners - and statistically failing to show any impact on violent crime - the Brady 'Campaign Against Illegal Guns' is yet another crusade whose ultimate goal is to trample the Second Amendment into dust.

Alan Gottlieb

Gun, Dust, Law

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Prison is an important part of life. We can't have violent people running around in the streets. (3 out of 4 federal prisoners are serving time for non-violent crimes.) Most competent and qualified kindergarden teachers can tell you who the 5 kids are in his or her class likely to wind up in prison 15 - 20 years from now.

Howard Dean

Running, Teacher, Kids

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In other words, in the same way that mass incarceration surged because of a real thing, it's finally starting to ebb because of a real thing: the actual, concrete decline in violent crime that started in the early 90s and which appears to be permanent. America is simply a safer place than it used to be, and looks set to stay that way.

Kevin Drum

Real, America, Looks

"Our Obsession With Mass Incarceration May Finally Be Ebbing" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 2, 2015.

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Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.

Bob Barr

Beautiful, Country, Gun

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One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if you want to have an impact on crime - that it's not a coincidence that you see the greatest amount of violent crime where you see the greatest amount of social dysfunction.

Eric Holder

Impact, Dysfunction, Want

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Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.

L. Neil Smith

Summer, Men, Intelligent

"Merchants of Fear". Speech to the Boulder County Libertarian Party, February 20, 1994.

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There is a significant moral difference between a person who commits a violent crime and a person who tries to cross a border illegally in order to put food on the family table. Such migrants my violate our laws against illicit entry, but if that's all they do they are trespassers, not criminals. They deserve to have their dignity respected.

Madeleine Albright

Order, Law, Differences

"Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership". Book by Madeleine Albright, January 8, 2008.

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To avoid being sexist and racist, we should assume that half the perpetrators of violent crimes are white, liberal women.

Michael Z. Williamson

White, Racist, Half

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I always say, "Never give your lead character an infant. Make them a recovering alcoholic, or the victim of a horrible violent crime because you can really never truly recover from that." It's a story pitfall.

Julie Plec

Character, Giving, Pitfalls

Source: collider.com

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If you ask the average person they'd tell ya, "Naw, it's much more dangerous," despite the fact that violent crime has dropped precipitously.

Barack Obama

Average, Facts, Crime

Source: abcnews.go.com

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If you are a carrier of a particular set of genes, your probability of committing a violent crime goes up by eight hundred and eighty-two percent.

David Eagleman

Two, Eight, Crime

David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.167, Vintage

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Defenders of the system will counter by saying this drug war has been aimed at violent crime. But that is not the case. The overwhelming majority of people arrested in the drug war have been arrested for relatively minor, non-violent drug offenses.

Michelle Alexander

War, People, Drug

Source: www.truth-out.org

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Our most conservative estimates show that by adopting shall-issue laws(concealed carry laws), states reduced murders by 8.5%, rapes by 5%, aggravated assaults by 7% and robbery by 3%... While support for strict gun-control laws usually has been strongest in large cities, where crime rates are highest, that's precisely where right-to-carry laws have produced the largest drops in violent crimes.

John R. Lott Jr.

Gun, Law, Cities

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