Just go to every jail in the country, and move all the signs at the entrance doors and gates, transferring those on the outside to the inside and vice-versa. Thus, the sign showing the name of the prison will be on the inside, and the one saying “exit - please don’t pass through this door if you aren’t supposed to” will be on the outside.

Yeah, that kind of fits right in with the idea Neill started and I finished.  Now we just need to find someone to writethe script.

I jumped down to the bottom here to address Dave’s wife’s statement that killing and imprisoning people are crimes. Crime is whatever the law says it is. If a law is passed saying that the government can kill and imprison people, then it is no longer a crime to do these things. Brutal dictators who do many horrible things to their people usually are careful to pass laws that make their actions legal.

Oh, and you might get a kick out of studying some of the laws that the US Congress has passed in the last few years. Also, throw in Georgie’s executive orders.

Actually, if the one in ten is a politician that might take care of the whole problem.

This thread made me think - I can’t wait for somebody to write the book.  It also reminded me of what my dad used to say every time I got hurt..."Should I step on your toe so your _____ doesn’t hurt?” Wouldn’t randomly shooting 10 people be a lot like stepping on your toe?  It might take the focus off the real problem for a while, but it wouldn’t actually do anything more than make two sore spots How’s that for the non-intellectual simplistic view of the issue?