If you could be guaranteed one thing in this country, which would you choose?
1 - Safety?
2 - Healthcare?
3 - Freedom?
4 - Education?
5 - A Home?
6 - Guns?
7 - Food?
8 - Transportation?
9 - Employment?
10 - Children?
Whichever option we would choose as a nation, I believe we would get it. However, I believe that there is only one choice on this list that would give us the best chance at securing all the others.
What is a criminal? Who can be classified into that category?
CRIM-I-NAL
(noun) a person who has committed a crime.
synonym - lawbreaker
LAW-BREAK-ER
(noun) a person who violates the law.
It is interesting to think about laws and who those laws are designed for. I argue that laws are basically rules that establish a punishment for a certain action. For example: rob a bank = go to jail. So the law that states that it is illegal to rob a bank, establishes a boundary and if you choose to cross that boundary, you have broken the law and must therefore be penalized.
However, if we think about who the laws are written for it is obvious that they are written to control law-abiding citizens. If we consider the definitions above it is clear that criminals do not obey the law and therefore it can be pre-supposed that laws are not written for criminals. For criminals however, the law simply is an announcement of the penalty for when they commit a crime.
So the next time you hear law-makers speak about how we need this law or that law to prevent crimes, just remember that those laws don't apply to criminals... they are designed for you.
