Yes, the left is concentrating on the wrong thing. Drug deaths are higher than all other deaths combined. Most of them from fentanyl.
Back in the late 1960's we were having over 50,000 deaths a year from automobile accidents. They made the cars safer, required seat belts, improved the highways with wider bridges, barricades, and guard rails. All this helped, but they were still high. They found out that half of the deaths were caused by drunk young people under 21, so they raised the drinking age, and started cracking down on DUI's. The death rate came down.
We need some politicians in Washington to make more severe laws against drug dealing, like the death penalty, and CLOSE THE BORDER where 90% of the fentanyl comes from, and also illegals. Send illegals home. Japan did this years ago, and no drug problem today. Problem is a lot of crooked law enforcement gets kickback money from the dealers. They too should get severe penalties. Drug problem solved.
Another thing I learned is that 90% of crime is done by repeat offenders. Seems like locking a young person away for a long time, maybe until they are middle aged, it would solve a lot of crime. Someone caught in a gang initiation, should squeal on whoever made them do the crime and those people should be locked up for that crime also. That would break up the gangs. Maybe we need to build more prisons, as the schools and parents aren't doing their job.
I also think we should have year round school like Germany, and graduate in 10 years, at 16. No drivers license until you graduate high school, or until you are at least 18. Alabama had one of the lowest graduation rates in the nation until we passed the drivers license law. You drop out before 18, not license. The graduation rate is now in the middle of the country about 24th or 25th. Still doesn't mean they learned anything. I also think kids should know how to balance a checkbook, or their checking accounts, learn to make a household budget, and know how to read a newspaper or news article and understand it before graduation. Learning household economics might make the more responsible adults and learn to save for things instead of charging them.
