You may suggest that we are, and Juristat may suggest that crime rates are coming down, but crime victimization surveys are showing that crime among young people has doubled in the last ten years. We are one of the safest countries in the world. I love my country; I think it is one of the greatest countries in the world, but one of the things that we are not doing is looking after youth who follow the rules, looking after young people who do the right thing by providing them with the protections that are necessary.
To suggest that denunciation and deterrence, which is what I believe this discussion started out as, doesn't mean anything I think is incredibly wrong. I think if individuals who commit acts of violence--and many of those individuals are a part of gangs and they choose who their peer groups are. If it is well known in that community that if you do this, this will happen, then I believe this will prevent a lot of the crime we see today. That is the concept of social denunciation and deterrence.