rcarback on Nostr: This is certainly reality in a world lacking a functioning legal system like ours ...

This is certainly reality in a world lacking a functioning legal system like ours but, in practice, it's extremely rare that a violent criminal emerges without a history of criminal behavior. Society is both too lax and too strict in all the wrong ways. There's no emphasis on rehabilitation and monitoring earlier, when it counts. The punishments are also purely punitive and paint individuals with scarlet letters that make it difficult for them to ever be productive members of society again.

In other words, the current systems are largely designed to produce worse criminals (unintentionally, unless you're a prison corpo...). While a statement like this is true on it's face, it naturally leads to policy preferences that make the problems worse (i.e., less gun control for all including all the known and worst criminal elements out there). Responsible citizens and policies get sidelined.