Manedwolf
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I see this sort of thing all the time, but this time local. A criminal does something that indicates that they're the worst sort of sadistic, beyond-help personality, but they get let off with "psychological counseling." Then, a year or less later, they kill someone or do something else horrific. THEN they get punished, finally.
And if they shoot someone, the guns get blamed, not that a dangerous sort was let out instead of being kept off the streets. Or if they shoot and miss someone, they STILL get let out, and only put away when they actually manage to hit their target or an innocent bystander...and the 'evil guns' get blamed.
That'd be the case here after a fashion, once again. A totally sadistic teenager who had multiple counts of animal cruelty for several instances of torturing kittens (!), locking one in the trunk of his car and trying to set one on fire and just showing that he was a really sadistically violent person..had a suspended sentence for "psycological evaluation".
Well, now, a year later, he threw a motolov cocktail at a house and burned it to the ground, an occupant narrowly escaping. Several firefighters had a narrow escape before it collapsed, too, they almost got trapped, and would likely have been killed. NOW he faces justice...and yet only a 7 to 15 year max sentence, which means parole in like...5?
When will they learn to PUNISH criminals instead, especially gun-crime criminals, and leave the tools themselves alone?
Is it just easier to blame the inanimate tools, and not accept the fact that some people are just BAD human beings, a danger to the law-abiding, and beyond cushy feel-good counseling help? That once they are found guilty, mind you, of a real crime that indicates a mindset of violent disregard for life...that they're kept AWAY from the population? The sort who sit in the courtroom with a cold, remorseless, icy expression, or even a smirk...and you just know that someone is going to have to die before they're truly brought to justice.
When will we, as a society, have the guts to ask what's more important, trying to "reform" a violent, sadistic dangerous criminal...or protecting the innocent, the law-abiding, the police and firefighters and other citizens from their violence?
Good of the many over the good of the few, or the one. Or is that not PC anymore?
And if they shoot someone, the guns get blamed, not that a dangerous sort was let out instead of being kept off the streets. Or if they shoot and miss someone, they STILL get let out, and only put away when they actually manage to hit their target or an innocent bystander...and the 'evil guns' get blamed.
That'd be the case here after a fashion, once again. A totally sadistic teenager who had multiple counts of animal cruelty for several instances of torturing kittens (!), locking one in the trunk of his car and trying to set one on fire and just showing that he was a really sadistically violent person..had a suspended sentence for "psycological evaluation".
Well, now, a year later, he threw a motolov cocktail at a house and burned it to the ground, an occupant narrowly escaping. Several firefighters had a narrow escape before it collapsed, too, they almost got trapped, and would likely have been killed. NOW he faces justice...and yet only a 7 to 15 year max sentence, which means parole in like...5?
When will they learn to PUNISH criminals instead, especially gun-crime criminals, and leave the tools themselves alone?
Is it just easier to blame the inanimate tools, and not accept the fact that some people are just BAD human beings, a danger to the law-abiding, and beyond cushy feel-good counseling help? That once they are found guilty, mind you, of a real crime that indicates a mindset of violent disregard for life...that they're kept AWAY from the population? The sort who sit in the courtroom with a cold, remorseless, icy expression, or even a smirk...and you just know that someone is going to have to die before they're truly brought to justice.
When will we, as a society, have the guts to ask what's more important, trying to "reform" a violent, sadistic dangerous criminal...or protecting the innocent, the law-abiding, the police and firefighters and other citizens from their violence?
Good of the many over the good of the few, or the one. Or is that not PC anymore?