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So guns must be the answer, right?

From yesterday's New York Times:

"After more than 50 years of stability, federal and state prison populations skyrocketed from under 200,000 persons in 1970 to more than 1.3 million in 2002. That year, our imprisonment rate rose above 600 inmates per 100,000 adults. With the inclusion of an additional 700,000 inmates in jail, we now incarcerate more than two million people — resulting in the highest incarceration number and rate in the world, five times that of Britain and 12 times that of Japan."

Full Op-Ed piece on America's wacked-out "mental health system" (read: "incarceration fetish") here

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