The Ultimate Crime Prevention

A NH man will not be charged of a crime for firing a warning shot into the ground near a burglar he confronted.

This is just one element of a worldwide wave of crime prevention and suppression of violence that forms the basis of OTHERS.

Gun advocates came out and supported this guy, hollering that he should not be charged.

They don't get it.

Neither do the people who reported that numerous gun advocates supported this man's actions.

Others who are not gun advocates wanted his charges dropped, too. Why were they not mentioned? Because they were not easy to categorize--even inaccurately.

Let's state this as it is: A moment in which a criminal was scared enough to surrender immediately, and maybe scared enough so he'll never rob again.

Could that be what the world needs to go for? Guns or not?

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Civility works best when the violent are terrified of revenge for their deeds, by people they'll never know.

Scaring the violent into peaceful behavior is one thing, but if that comes from who-knows-where, maybe from friends or relatives or outsiders, they don't know who to look out for or retaliate against. They'll not know who knows of what they've done, who forgives them, who watches them, who shuns them, who snubs them, who gives up on them. And who seems entirely at ease with them, because they're not faking it.

The violent need correction. They need some lack of trust with the outside world they live in. They need flipping to the good side. And constant concern about what may happen to them if they return to crime. Lifelong regret, maybe. They may prefer that. You think?

If they don't care, well, somebody can make an example of them. Or maybe their remains.

Is there something wrong with the ultimate justice if it stops the violence and turns others from it?

Maybe that's distasteful to you, and not your way.

All it may take is one person to administer that kind of correction you may not agree with.

But, if it works, can you agree with the outcome? And if there is something there that bothers you, is it best to lay some sort of responsibility on the violent? Why should you take the concern, the worry, when they earned it?

This justice happens all the time, in some form. Always has.

Does the world need more of it? Might beat the peacekeeping we've got now.

That's the philosophy behind TAG.

The hitch is, no one else knows what's in our hearts until its shown. Is that real anger, is it venting, or genuine threat?

That's Ky's problem.

Not TAG. Not its operation. TAG can reveal something of itself, to terrorize the violent and allay the concerns of the peaceful.

Ky's problem lies in the hearts of those who don't care, for their own frightening reasons.

Let's see how a precocious and insightful young lady handles possible deadly threat.

From four directions.