YOU THINK A DRAFT WOULD CLEAR ALOT OF THE VIOLENCE ON THE STREETS !?

No; those using violence in the streets are too stupid to be useful for a modern military so would be rejected at the onset as unfit for duty.

No

But you would be inundated with bad press resulting from reports about the behaviour of our armed forces abroad.

My idea is to make the culprit pay ALL the costs of their actions.

For example, their victims' hospital costs and loss of income, plus all court costs and a levy for the trauma they have caused. This could amount to tens of thousands of dollars !

If this culprit receives unemployment benefit, then the victim can claim directly from the benefit office, and this amount would be regularly deducted from the benefits given.

The same if the culprit is working, when this could be claimed directly from their employer.

Prison does not work, so maybe a hefty bill may deter offenders, after all, why should the taxpayer pay for their aggressive actions ?

During the seventies in England, I was attacked by football hooligans and suffered very severe concussion, plus scull fracture, broken fingers and a broken nose. I had concentration problems for nearly a year afterwards. This eventually resulted in my losing my employment as an engineer.

The culprits got suspended sentences, plus relatively small fines, they continued going to football matches, and didn't change their aggressive behaviour one bit, indeed one of them threatened me with even more violence if I ever go to the police again.

I told him that if there was a next time he had better make a better job of it and that I would not go to the police, because it was not worth the effort. Instead I would buy myself some kind of weapon, and we would meet again, but this time when he was unsuspecting. I swore to him that he would need an undertaker, not a doctor.

I was never threatened again, because he knew I meant every word.

Especially when I made it common knowledge when I had bought a very powerful crossbow.

Such a beautiful, silent weapon !

If the draft is cold enough it might.....You mean a military draft? You'll really hear the fat little X BOX players whine if that happens. Nothing will make a neocon into liberal faster than the fear of getting a letter from the draft board and messing up their personal lives.

The streets were plenty violent 40 years ago when there was a draft. So, no.

No I don't. Horrible idea.

Because after a lot of the young people forced to participate in war come home, many are going to be bitter and angry and suffering PTSD and more disposed towards violence than they were before.

**** no. A draft is the ******* shittiest idea ever. It doesn't help anything. It's land of the FREE. No land of the free until the government makes you go to war.

with decreasing teen age population street violence will reduce

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