Just How Incredibly Fucking Stupid Are The American People, Anyway?

Here’s a quick quiz?

What crime puts more people in the hospital?

a.) domestic violence

b.) smoking marijuana

What crime does the Topeka, Kansas City Council plan to legalize?

a.) domestic violence

b.) smoking marijuana

Soon to be Legal in Kansas

The answer to both questions is a.), and I sincerely wish I were joking.  The whole thing is because of the economic crisis, of course.

From Mother Jones:

Shawnee County District Attorney Chad Taylor announced on Sept. 8 that he isn’t going to prosecute misdemeanors anymore, which includes those for domestic violence, because he’s too broke to deal with it. The decision came after the county commission voted to cut the DA’s budget by 10 percent for 2012. Taylor argued, instead, that city prosecutors should be handling misdemeanors—even though, as the city manager pointed out at the time in the Topeka Capitol-Journal, state law requires the district attorney to prosecute those cases. Besides that, the county has better resources for dealing with those cases, especially domestic violence.

So then the Topeka City Council decided that in order to fix this situation, they would just repeal the city code that makes domestic battery illegal.

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Of course, the main reason this is outrageous is that it’s VIOLENCE.  If they’re going to make it legal to beat up your wife in order to save money, why don’t they just stop prosecuting people for murder, armed robbery, rape, arson and kidnapping.  The police could save a ton of money.

But I compare it to marijuana because that’s one area where they could save the money and nobody would have any reason to complain.  They’d also save a lot of time, free up the courtrooms and jails, and create lots of business for local fast food restaurants.  They might even reduce domestic violence.