The 'Mass-Shooting In The US' thread

[Sgt PSN]

Yeah, I also think the sentences are fairly minimal as well. Granted, it still needs to stop but it's not like we have a problem with prisons being overpopulated with pot heads and corner boys. The biggest waste is time/money spent busting and prosecuting them.

[Seabiscuit36]

no one gets locked up for weed anymore...unless you are runnin around with a few pounds....that storyline is way over played these days

http://marijuana-arrests.com/nyc-pot-arrest-docs.html

[Diomedes]

... it's not like we have a problem with prisons being overpopulated with pot heads and corner boys....

You are mistaken.  These are exactly the people who are filling our prisons. 

"Real Americans" whose kid accidentally shoots herself and white collar thieves walk, corner boys hustling for grandma's grocery money CUFF 'EM.

[Tomahawk]

no one gets locked up for weed anymore...unless you are runnin around with a few pounds....that storyline is way over played these days

Seabiscuit's link illustrated how marijuana laws are racially enforced in the form of arrests only. This link shows 55% of federal inmates are in prison for violating a drug law.

[Sgt PSN]

... it's not like we have a problem with prisons being overpopulated with pot heads and corner boys....

You are mistaken.  These are exactly the people who are filling our prisons. 

"Real Americans" whose kid accidentally shoots herself and white collar thieves walk, corner boys hustling for grandma's grocery money CUFF 'EM.

They may be filling out the prisons but they aren't the bulk of the population. Maybe your "hard drug" dealers or users like coke, heroin, etc, make up a significant portion of the prison pop, but Joe Pothead isn't taking up much space in C block. 

Agree on the white collar criminals and such though.

[Diomedes]

55% of what, 2 million?

In other words, we don't have to argue this point any longer.  Capacity is not the issue. 

[Tomahawk]

2 million is about right, but that includes the county lockup too.

[Diomedes]

No potheads or cornerboys in there. [/Sassy]

[rjs246]

Anyone who thinks that the prison population isn't wildly overrepresented by drug and non-violent offenders hasn't spent any time reading up on the topic.

[Seabiscuit36]

Anyone who thinks that the prison population isn't wildly overrepresented by drug and non-violent offenders hasn't spent any time reading up on the topic.

Why read?  IGY knows.

[ice grillin you]

does it EVER happen?....im sure

but by and large people arent going to prison for selling nickel bags of weed....much less it being some epidemic like a lot of people think

[Diomedes]

Get popped for selling dime bags three times and see if you don't do time.  In some places, lots of time.

[ice grillin you]

pretty awesome

http://blogs.tcpalm.com/off_the_beat_will_greenlee_blog/2011/05/st-lucie-county-woman-apparently-shoots-rifle-at-target-in-bedroom-closet-and-misses-nails-washing-m.html

[ice grillin you]

shut up you sonless socialist scumbag!!

http://hypervocal.com/news/2013/newtown-victim-father-heckled/

[PhillyPhreak54]

shut up you sonless socialist scumbag!!

http://hypervocal.com/news/2013/newtown-victim-father-heckled/

That sickens me.

Each one of those people who heckled that guy deserve to have the shtein beaten out of them. Man or woman.