I would hope so as well.
Do you think there should be, at any point in time.... I'm not trying to muddy the waters here, but I hear about the same thing that you talked about in your testimony. Some of these really young people are being recruited into these gangs to be used as mules, or whatever you want to call them.
It's not uncommon in my constituency where these gang issues are a problem to see youth targeted, under the age of 12 in particular, because of the protections they're afforded in not being criminally responsible for any of their actions, no matter how heinous their actions might actually be. It's usually in a situation where they're brainwashed, or convinced, or threatened, to do things that any normal child at that age shouldn't even have to imagine, much less be coerced into doing.
Was there any consideration given at any time to creating a different threshold for trying to recruit somebody under the age of 12?