TexasRifleman
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You mean "misguided lost souls"
Can't be blaming people, that would admit that things like personal responsibility actually exist.
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You mean "misguided lost souls"
Can't be blaming people, that would admit that things like personal responsibility actually exist.
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The last time I checked (been awhile) the safest country was Switzerland where they all are part of the military,and have to have a loaded full auto in their home. The police are NOT responsible for the safety any of us. They can only respond after the fact! There are some of us that take responsibility for our own safety,and that of our family as it should be. Long as I am venting I believe there was a Supreme Court decision out of the 1930's that said in essence that Military Weapons were protected not hunting firearm's, then again I could be wrong...........hounder
The last time I checked (been awhile) the safest country was Switzerland where they all are part of the military,and have to have a loaded full auto in their home. The police are NOT responsible for the safety any of us. They can only respond after the fact! There are some of us that take responsibility for our own safety,and that of our family as it should be. Long as I am venting I believe there was a Supreme Court decision out of the 1930's that said in essence that Military Weapons were protected not hunting firearm's, then again I could be wrong...........hounder
statelineblues
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The Phila Daily News has been a shill for PA's anti movement for a long time - remember that Gov. Rendell (Mr. Class Action Suit against the gun manufacturers) was the mayor of Philly.
Warms my heart to hear that the Philly Inquirer and Philly Daily News just filed for bankruptcy.....
Warms my heart to hear that the Philly Inquirer and Philly Daily News just filed for bankruptcy.....
Getting rid of the "cold hearted savages" would involve reducing/eliminating poverty, improving education, building solid family/community systems - you know, tasks that are challenging if not impossible.
It's much easier to scapegoat a tool, sign it away with the stroke of a pen to claim that you're doing something, and call it a day.
Just One Shot
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I'd be curious to know if the BG in this story has a history of illegal activity?
It seems that our legal system has failed us in many ways. They send a person to prison and they don't recieve any kind of training or rehabilitation other than being drug deeper and deeper into the criminal mindset by their fellow inmates.
To top it off it seems that our prisons were built with revolving doors. When ever there is a budget or over crowding problem they turn the thugs loose to roam the streets once again to continue down the long road of of their criminal activities.
I have a friend who's mother was murdered years ago by 2 guys who were put back on the street before finishing their sentence. She probably weighed 90 lbs. soak and wet but they beat her to death trying to get money that she didn't have. She was on social security and we all know how well off people on that program are doing. :banghead:
It seems that our legal system has failed us in many ways. They send a person to prison and they don't recieve any kind of training or rehabilitation other than being drug deeper and deeper into the criminal mindset by their fellow inmates.
To top it off it seems that our prisons were built with revolving doors. When ever there is a budget or over crowding problem they turn the thugs loose to roam the streets once again to continue down the long road of of their criminal activities.
I have a friend who's mother was murdered years ago by 2 guys who were put back on the street before finishing their sentence. She probably weighed 90 lbs. soak and wet but they beat her to death trying to get money that she didn't have. She was on social security and we all know how well off people on that program are doing. :banghead:
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I have dealt with a lot of criminals professionally, but comparatively quite few who have done long prison sentences. Those who did tended to fall into one of two patterns, the divergence between which I find a little disturbing.
Those who committed the worst, most violent crimes tended either to "find religion" and rehabilitate into a very different person, or else to withdraw into themselves, and upon release be hardly seen or heard from again until they quietly died, and it made the news and shocked their neighborhood.
On the other hand, those who committed comparatively "minor", sometimes non-violent offenses and yet received and served long prison sentences, usually under inflexible federal sentencing guidelines, did NOT rehabilitate, and instead tended to BECOME very violent and dysfunctional. Sometimes they were an otherwise fairly ordinary person who for whatever reason committed tax fraud, insider trading, racketeering, corruption, or whatever. When they emerged from prison they were MORE anti-social and, to my view, MORE dangerous to society than before. Some believed they had been abused by an imperfect system, and in some cases it was time for payback.
Our criminal justice system of punishment is based on some very eccentric and often questionable assumptions, and to a great extent is the contorted product of historical accident and political machination.
Those who committed the worst, most violent crimes tended either to "find religion" and rehabilitate into a very different person, or else to withdraw into themselves, and upon release be hardly seen or heard from again until they quietly died, and it made the news and shocked their neighborhood.
On the other hand, those who committed comparatively "minor", sometimes non-violent offenses and yet received and served long prison sentences, usually under inflexible federal sentencing guidelines, did NOT rehabilitate, and instead tended to BECOME very violent and dysfunctional. Sometimes they were an otherwise fairly ordinary person who for whatever reason committed tax fraud, insider trading, racketeering, corruption, or whatever. When they emerged from prison they were MORE anti-social and, to my view, MORE dangerous to society than before. Some believed they had been abused by an imperfect system, and in some cases it was time for payback.
Our criminal justice system of punishment is based on some very eccentric and often questionable assumptions, and to a great extent is the contorted product of historical accident and political machination.
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