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Hear Jesus as a family and serve Him. Care about people and love people.

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It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

Crime, Crimes, Pragmatism, Prevent, Punish
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Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment

Certainty, Crime, Punishment, Severity

The laws that forbid the carrying of arms. . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity. . . will respect the less important and arbitrary ones. . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants, they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

Gun, Law, Laws, Men, Sacred, Violate

For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.

Committing, Crime, Intensity, Men, Suffice

Laws against the possession of weapons only disarm those who have no intention of committing a crime.

Against, Committing, Crime, Law, Weapons

The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.

Death, Judging, Nation, Punishment, War
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