Sentences with phrase «n't effective deterrents»

People who argue guns aren't effective deterrents are basically arguing that the police themselves are impotent and provide no real deterrent to criminals, which of course is total nonsense.

But then you get into the topic of how capital punishment is not an effective deterrent (but then neither is some alleged hell fire).

Heather's call for «calling out, naming, and shaming» is a natural response, but not an effective deterrent when the system rewards the behaviour.

This ``... is not an effective deterrent unless there is a real chance of being caught.»

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Guns are very effective deterrents, and given that 99.9996 % of gun owners don't go out and kill anyone with guns (that's, 35000 murders (assuming one murder per gun owner, which is a generous number, divided by 100m gun owners, which own about 270m guns in the US), it's mind numbingly stupid to argue that GUNS are the problem, or that even legal gun owners are the problem, when you're more likely to get run over by a car (and 13 times more likely to just die of cancer).

One study from the University of Colorado found that 88 percent of America criminologists did not believe that the death penalty was an effective deterrent, and 91 percent believe politicians support the death penalty merely as a way to appear tough on crime.

The plain truth is, though, that even if punishment was effective as a deterrent, a gentle response to physical aggression is literally the only response that a parent can make that won't actually reinforce the aggression.

At their scale it is not a very effective deterrent is it?

This power of exposure is a far more effective deterrent in many countries, including our own, than the court systems that deliver judgment and not necessarily justice.

When asked why this project is so important to him, he voiced the dominant perspective among weapon scientists at LLNL: He doesn't want nuclear weapons to be used and passionately believes the key to ensuring they aren't is to making sure the U.S. stockpile continues to be an effective deterrent.

The idea of capital punishment as both reliable, objective justice and effective deterrent is shown to be dangerously absurd, and its abolition does not signal an instant cultural shift.

This can mean a combination of two strategies — using humane outside motion sensor cat deterrents (Cat Stop and The Scarecrow by Contech are very effective) and blocking certain windows in your home so your cat can not see outside cats where motion sensor deterrents may not reach.

Some pet owners instead rely upon deterrents that give the dogs feces a foul taste or smell; however, this is not always as effective since it can not be administrated to all animals that defecate in the vicinity of the dog.

Deterrent or distraction treatments are not as effective for coprophagia, but they can be effective to a certain degree if the dog's owner is committed.

Fleas are not an exception and saltwater can be used as an effective deterrent.

Alarm barkers are extremely effective deterrents, especially if they do not bark when people simply walk by your house or car.

You must «catch her in the act» for the deterrent to be effective; it will not work if it is a moment too late.

«I feel that Valve has perhaps not quite got this balanced correctly yet but they have certainly created an effective deterrent.»