OrionTheWolf
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What bothers me is the concept that thieves (, thugs, and scammers) have any rights a at all.
I quite agree.. I hear that people in the States are so afraid of crime that the majority of them feel very passionate about the right to bear arms and a considerable majority of them favour the death penalty too.
It's not right. It's bad enough people being rude enough to point their fingers at you, let alone their guns. I mean, you wouldn't go down to Walmart armed with a gun to do your shopping, would you? Not least if you were in your right mind. So why go to a drug store and start waving a gun around? I mean, looking at the video, there wasn't even a queue and nobody was waiting to collect their prescriptions.
Back when I did personal security, I carried two firearms at all times, except where prohibited by law. This also included Wal Mart, the grocery store, the corner store, etc.
You are setting yourself up as the moral judge to state something is emphatically wrong, when there are so many mitigating factors. I am sure the same has been done to you, about something else, and the person doing it to you felt morally superior. That is how you are coming off here, in my perception at least.
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Things have got too far I tell you. These folks were lucky it wasn't the Middle East, else they would have had their bits chopped off them (without anaesthetic) and then likely or not they would have been strung up in the central market square.
The culture you speak of operates with a different morality, and what you describe is not seen as bad by many that live in those areas.
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However I do think it's high time the criminal justice system was sorted out once and for all. That's why I think the whole lot of them should be sent to a penal colony for 75 years hard labour - the lot of them. That'll teach them to start messing about with guns.
What you suggest sounds good on the surface, but you will never get the criminal justice system sorted out. This means that you may well be sending innocent people away to a life of torture (if you know what a penal colony actually is).
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You see you can't get round the fact that guns are designed to kill, so even by owning one well that makes you a potential criminal. Enough of this pussy footing about, this soft soap approach, this political correctness, if you commit a crime, any sort of a crime, then it's clear that you need to be resocialized to become a better citizen, and 50 years hard labour in a penal colony to me is the way to go.
Driving makes you a potential criminal. Guns are designed to kill, and with proper training are only used in life or death situations, or where the potential of great bodily harm is evident. Resocialized? You mean like brain washing and reprogramming? 50 years in a penal colony just creates a more hardened criminal that will have less regard for human life, and not more regard.
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There's no two ways about it, the justice system has to get much tougher.
Crime is fought best with education and better living conditions.
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