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He said "reduce" crime not "eliminate" it. Hell, crime rates would go down if ALL babies were aborted too since younger people commit more crime. Of course, if someone said that, there wouldn't be legions of people jumping on him and making it out to be "ageism" because even if that person DID hate young people, nobody would care.
Obviously saying what he said was a really dumb move because people love to jump on things like this and make it out to be racism, so he was just asking for trouble. I see it as a simple factual analysis, but there are a lot of people out there who can't handle either facts or analysis (cf evolution debate).
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"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded." --Abraham Lincoln
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