Relaxed Gun Controls, Unlicensed Sales Help Fuel California Gun Violence

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Originally Posted by ForTehNguyen

if everyone had a college degree to make 60k, for the most part, there would be a lot less poverty and therefore a lot less crime.

I know a lot of people with college degrees and a lot of them don't make $60k/yr. I'm one of them. However, I'm not a criminal. Why? Because I'm willing to work for what I want and I'm content with what I have. I also had good parents that raised me right and made sure I wasn't going to be a lazy bum or a crook.

Guarantee you most of the people in prison aren't people with college degrees.

I can guarantee that many of the people in prison came from a broken home or were raised by parents that weren't good role models.

Education is always the long term solution to poverty.

No, being willing to work and not try for the quick buck by being a criminal is the long term solution to poverty. I also know several people (my father is one of them) that never attended or finished college.

Govt spending on social programs is always the short term solution.

It's not even a short term solution.

Criminals rob because they don't have the means (no education etc) or will (lazy) to legally make money, not because they want more and more. Everyone wants more and more criminal or not.

Criminals rob because they have no regard for the law and have made a conscious decision to be a criminal. They have no morals because they were probably raised by only one parent or their parents didn't really care about their children enough to teach them morals.

Look, I'm not saying that if you come from a broken home, were raised by only one parent or your parents were jerks you're predestined to be a criminal. I'm just saying that without the good example that a moral, loving, caring family can give you, you've already got a hell of a good start to being a crook.

The problem with poverty is that it will always exist. It is impossible to ensure that everyone has an "average" income. All you can do is provide the opportunities and tools to help people improve themselves. If you're parents are poor and you want to be rich, you'd better be willing to work hard and get good enough grades to win a scholarship or be willing to work hard enough to keep a steady job and get promoted.