What have we heard about? Kids armed with hammers and crowbars doing daylight robberies. This is our next generation of three-strikers. What about the 60-second ransacking of stores? The best one from this week would be the six retail stores targeted in one night in Auckland over this past weekend, and a youth caught in an aggravated robbery yelling to be freed because he's just 13 years old. In Taranaki they're investigating their fifth homicide in six months; the second one in a week. Violent crime is out of control, and three strikes has done its bit to keep the worst of the worst locked up and away from participating in this free-for-all of vicious and violent crime that our communities are currently experiencing. 