This story in Today’s Globe had my BLOOD BOILING!
It looked like Carl Lemon would be going back to jail for the 20th time. Saddled with a 25-year record of shoplifting, drug dealing, and assorted other crimes, not to mention eight aliases, Lemon had made it easy for prosecutors. He even signed a confession saying that he had stolen a woman’s purse while she ate in a Back Bay restaurant. A second victim, whose bag he also snatched, had driven overnight from Canada to testify against him. But, as the two victims watched in disbelief, the judge set Lemon free, saying that the career criminal, then 43, needed a detox program, not jail time. When the detective who arrested Lemon rolled his eyes and muttered that the decision was a disgrace, Judge Raymond G. Dougan Jr. had court officers lock him up for the morning instead.
“I thought someone was going to jail that day; I just didn’t think it would be me,’’ recalled Detective Andrew Gambon.
Go over and read the whole thing, its a laundry list of a Judge who obviously dislikes police and compassion for the most violent, predatory, and dangerous members of society.
There are several cases listed where this bleeding heart lets career criminals out on bail where they commit further violent crimes. This may be an extreme example, but the sentiment of judges. Also not surprising this appears to be a common sentiment of anti-gun people who are often from the socialist left.
You see often the anti-gun people propose ineffective, redundant, and generally anti-right laws, as a means to curb “Gun Violence”. The obvious debate point is to note that the law wouldn’t actually work, and often there are anti-rights states or nations that have already tried said tactic to great failure.
They often retort “Well we have to do something!” or “The Pro-Gun People Propose we do nothing!”
Nope, the solution to violent crime (ALL violent crime, not just “Gun Death”) is to arm the lawful so they can resist violent crime, support the police in the lawful pursuit of criminals (As in no more no-knock warrants, terry stops, and other side-stepping of probable cause….most of the criminals aren’t particularly subtle about their behavior) and when people show a history of violent and dangerous behavior, as well as a direct defiance of the rule of law, then PUT THEM AWAY! FOREVER!
And frankly I don’t think letting humans rot in cages is particularly humane, so they should be executed with full respect.
You can’t fix everybody, and some people DEMAND they be removed from society.
As long as they’re allowed to walk among us, violence is the result.
Yeah, just like Joan’s (et al) calls not to shoot home invaders because “it might be some drunk college kid thinking he’s at the wrong house!” I think this is an interesting example to hold up, because aren’t the anti gunners always bemoaning the whole “guns-in-bars” laws because they think patrons will get drunk and shoot each other? Obviously if they believe people are capable of violence up to and including homicide while inebriated, then it would seem as if one certainly wouldn’t want to take any chances with the drunk who kicks one’s door down in the middle of the night. Not to mention the fact that WE are told not to shoot intruders, rather than telling THEM not to get drunk and break into peoples’ homes.
And one reason why they moderate comments is to avoid the follow-up question:
“If somebody is so drunk/high that not only do they confuse a house they have no right to be in as their own, but they decided that actually breaking in is a GOOD idea…what else will they be willing to do?”
I mean my neighbor forgot his keys one day and got locked out of his house. He came over to my house and hung out until his wife got home. I locked my keys inside my house one evening….I called a locksmith to pop the lock, rather than kicking my own door down.
If somebody breaks into your house no matter what they’re thinking, they are not thinking clearly enough for them to be safe around you.
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Oh good grief. And we’re the problem?
As a response to lefts insane thinking when it comes to violent crime I offer up this incident that occurred about 2 weeks ago to me (I previously posted this over at AR15.com):
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Friend and I are eating today at a local place known to house liberals (its near a university but their soup is so damn good). We were talking about what she needs to get on her AR for accessories such as lights, red dots, and foregrips when this goateed older gent at the next table chimes in with a deragotary comment re: firearms. A little tit-for-tat and I find out he’s an economics professor from the local U.
He made a telling comment to my refrain that the 2nd A has as much place on campus as the 1st A. His comment was basically that higher education professionals, being more tuned to the rarified atmosphere of higher thinking, understands that by and large college students dont understand the world and that it was up to them to make them understand that they were a small cog in the larger machine of society. Essentially that they need to be brainwashed into understanding that society provides so long as they carry on and dont rock the boat- which sounds a lot like Marxism/communism to me. That “people” like me and my friend dont understand that “society protects us” and that we “did not have the individual right to determine if someone- even a criminal bent on harming us- should live or die”
I think they are terrified of people carrying NOT because of some fear of drunken college students gunning each other down but because taking charge of your personal defense is the ultimate in individual freedom and gives a rhetorical finger to “the state” and concept of “the state”. That if law abiding adults were allowed to carry and be trusted with that awesome responsibility that they may start to question and rebel against the current dogma being spouted in higher education. Nothing says I have the self confidence to question authority as having the mindset of I can take care of myself even during a potential lethal encounter. That the current fight again campus carry is to put you in your place and maybe cow you a little to bend to their will.
My friend, a rape survivor, ended the convo by stating that people like her sure as hell had the right to do an immediate stop drill on any animal clothed as human that was to ever again prey on her. She said she only hoped she didnt ruin her clothes with blood spatter. Mr Professor abruptly got up and left with an expression like we just crapped in his soup. She carries an HK USPc 45 ACP loaded with 230gr Wilson Combat loads btw- I trained her right!
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And I want to point out that my friend refuses to be called a "rape victim" but rather a survivor- the predator that beat her with his fists and raped her in the parking lot of her work was a 4 time felon previously convicted of sexual assault and sexual battery (one of the incidents was on a 14 year old). But guess what- in jail he convinced the shrinks four times that he was "cured". My friend found out from the detectives that he had been sentenced to a total of 70 years for the other offenses and yet served less then 18 because he was "cured". She said never again and she has sworn to flat out kill any predator that ever comes after her again.
Things like this make one pray that these predators fall upon these judges and counselors wives, daughters and sisters instead of other innocent individuals that the enlightened ones in our justice system seem to care for. To my freinds crefit she confronted this stain of humanity on the witness stand where the defense tried to show it was her fault by bringing up questions on her sex life and wether or not she was "flaunting it" and thus enticed his client who has been known to exhibiti "limited self control". I had a dog that had limited self control and ended up biting a friend of mines kid unprovoked at a party after some previously concerning incidents- we put that dog down which is what should have happened to this shitbird (whose mother apparently sat in the courtroom telling people "my baby didna do nuffin")