Quote Originally Posted by CathyA View Post
Alan.....you've mentioned people needing to be responsible before, and I totally agree. But that's never going to happen. What then?
I don't have an answer to that. You can't force people to take responsibility for their actions, and it doesn't help matters for society to portray every anti-social actor as a victim. In the absence of people acting responsibly, society's only protection is to enforce consequences.

On TV last night I watched live video of thugs throwing bricks, rocks and bottles at police officers who remarkably did not respond with lethal force. A brick or bottle to the head meets all the requirements for a lethal force response although in this situation hundreds of violent offenders were allowed to continue. What are we teaching them by allowing them to escape the consequences of their actions? The way we tip-toe around behaviors such as these tells me that we'll never incentivize offenders to stop.