"The founding fathers did not like the idea of the tyranny of the majority ruling the country"
Dan Druff
I don't know what weapons World War III will be fought with, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today if a gift
and that is why it's called the present"
Eleanor Roosevelt
So many people have become so partisan and so obsessed with their own party's dogma that they can't stop and consider that the opposing party might be correct about something.
Liberals suck when it comes to violent crime. They suck now, and they always have.
This partially causes conservatives to rise to power when the backlash becomes strong enough.
Dukasis' action with weekend furloughs for violent criminals in Massachusetts was enough to sink his Presidential chances, even though it actually had no bearing on the job of President.
The US people as a whole are sick of liberals telling them that horrible criminals deserve a second chance and minimal disruption to their lives, while the victims and their families suffer for life (or are already dead).
The same line of thinking was what was responsible for California passing a law in the late '70s regarding "life in prison without the possibility of parole" being cruel and unusual punishment (no matter how heinous the crime), and it being banned. Seriously. This got reversed in later years, but liberals actually argued for and successfully passed this law.
Things are no different today. We still have liberals who think that the criminal justice system is simply here to make good little citizens out of horrible people, and that we should forgive past heinous crimes as long as the criminal can rehabilitate. No concern about the damage that was already caused! As long as the criminal becomes a good person AFTER ruining/ending lives, it's all good!
Unbelievable.
Yes, but several people in this thread have attacked me for my conclusions (that we need mandatory minimums), and then we've had suggestions that we go with horribly permissive criminal justice systems seen in other countries.
So again, no solution proposed here yet aside from the one I put forward.
"The founding fathers did not like the idea of the tyranny of the majority ruling the country"
Dan Druff
I don't know what weapons World War III will be fought with, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today if a gift
and that is why it's called the present"
Eleanor Roosevelt
One possible soution.......more walls
"The founding fathers did not like the idea of the tyranny of the majority ruling the country"
Dan Druff
I don't know what weapons World War III will be fought with, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today if a gift
and that is why it's called the present"
Eleanor Roosevelt
I have disagreed with my own party many times, and stated so out here.
I was against the rise of the Tea Party.
I have never supported Trump, and will not be voting for him.
I was partially for Obamacare, but just felt it was implemented incorrectly.
I have sided with Democrats on environmental issues and corporate liability.
I am not a sheep who blindly supports everything my party says and does.
However, I can still laugh at liberals being clueless, hypocritical, and unrealistic.
Yeah but if the NRA didn't have such power( gop backed) then we wouldn't have nearly as much crime as we do. Europe is liberal and they have a lot less crime than we do in the u.s.. Why is that? It's because of the bullshit gun laws, and the right wing backs the NRA. So explain that.
That little faggot who killed all those kids should never have had a gun, it's pretty hard to slaughter 20+ people with a kitchen knife.
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Originally Posted by Hockey Guy
"The founding fathers did not like the idea of the tyranny of the majority ruling the country"
Dan Druff
I don't know what weapons World War III will be fought with, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today if a gift
and that is why it's called the present"
Eleanor Roosevelt
Those spree killings are a tiny percentage of all murders in the US.
Most are committed by hardened criminals who would still have accessed to guns, even if totally outlawed.
The US has had a violent crime problem and a violent culture from the start. It's not the same as Europe, and never will be. Try European laws here, and our violent crime issues would get worse, not better.
I am actually for a modification of gun laws to prevent high powered weaponry from landing in the hands of citizens who can use them for murder.
It should also be noted that deranged criminals who want to kill mass people can do so without guns, such as constructing homemade bombs. The Boston Marathon terrorists, for example, committed their crimes without guns (well, until they were already on the run after the crime was committed). The terrorist in Nice committed his crime with a large truck.
The "lawyer" didn't give his opinion as a lawyer. He gave it as a liberal private citizen who didn't approve of Three Strikes, stating that it caused prison overcrowding.
I said he was wrong because Three Strikes has contributed very little to the prison overcrowding problem.
There are criticisms out there of Three Strikes, but overcrowding of prisons isn't really one of them, given the relatively low volume of such cases compared to the number of people incarcerated in CA.
The way you're framing it, you're making it sound like I told a corporate lawyer he's wrong about corporate case law.
Man you keep throwing up these lob pitches. "It should also be noted that deranged criminals who want to kill mass people can do so without guns,"
Criminals are typically in for the buck. The majority of murders are crime related but they are directed towards "competition" within that community. Your weekly mass murder rampage, is a result of some lunny who picks up a semi autiomatic at the drive through liquor store.
Which politcal party signed off on that?
"The founding fathers did not like the idea of the tyranny of the majority ruling the country"
Dan Druff
I don't know what weapons World War III will be fought with, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today if a gift
and that is why it's called the present"
Eleanor Roosevelt
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