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[I]"I'm open to suggestions. Like i said, i only got to this way of thinking because i saw the punishments and i saw the crimes and they didn't add up and the filth were (are) beginning to think they could get away with it.
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I'm going to be honest, Jacob. I don't know what will work. We don't disagree on the problems. I live five miles from Detroit, for gods sake. We have the highest violent crime percentage in the U.S. What we disagree on are methods of solution. But I honestly don't know what will work. And I don't feel any shame in that. A lot of things have been tried. Many of them to no avail. And all we can do is continue to try. But one thing that I refuse to do is give up. And I believe that the easy solutions (like the ones you are talking about) not only will not work but will destroy us as a people. I think that your views are very defeatist. I agree that it is difficult to have faith in humanity. In fact it might also be foolish. But I would much rather be a fool than a tyrant. I will not degrade my soul in that way.