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One hopes that our better-read readers will recognize this title as taken from a Jonathan Swift-written essay suggesting that the best cure for poverty would be to sell off poor children to be fattened up to be table fare. Sort of a “we’re having the children for dinner tonight” sort of thing.<\/p>\n
Relax, it was a satire on all the “proposals to fix the social ills” popular in the early 18th century. No one could possibly treat their young so cavalierly as to kill them out of hand, could they? Anyway, moving on:<\/p>\n
I keep seeing all of these proposed solutions to gun problems:\u00a0 universal background checks, universal registration, raising purchase ages, red flag laws, casting magic spells, you name it… here’s a slightly different idea.<\/p>\n
Make it mandatory that gun charges are not subject to plea-bargaining – non-negotiably, they have to go to trial. That’s it. Everyone complains that there are thousands of gun laws and prosecutors don’t use them. Why not? Because the gun charges are plea-bargained out immediately. You have some guy who robbed a 7-11, he’s charged with assault with a deadly weapon and felony robbery – his lawyer says “you toss the gun charge, he pleads to misdemeanor robbery” and the guy is out on the street within hours. Instead, make the gun violations a major pain in the neck. None of this tit-for-tat trade-off nonsense, make prosecutors and judges actually deal with it. If the charge is bogus for some reason, pronounce him innocent and send him on his merry way.<\/p>\n
That’s it. No new laws, no inconvenience to the law-abiding public. Just mandatory prosecution of some of the ones we already have on the books. Who’s going to object – the criminals?<\/p>\n
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