Posted on 06/14/2014 8:16:36 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
More strawmen.
Some days its like Thanksgiving with my liberal relatives around here.
So do you want ALL those convicted of serious felonies sentenced to life in prison or not?
If not, their term is going to end at some point and they’re going to be released.
And you call me absolutist. You’re the one claiming ALL dangerous felons should be locked up forever.
BTW, the Constitution prohibits us from doing that for anbdy already convicted, though we could change the law for those convicted in future.
For years the liberals lobbied to shut down insane asylums and release the inmates until they succeeded in turning them loose. Now we are reaping what they sowed.
“I’ve been thinking about the problem of mentally ill people with guns.”
Me, too. There are far too many questions unanswered.
The biggest problem I see with this is WHO is going to define “mental illness”?
According to libs every gun-owner is mentally ill.
notice they march on safe streets. why not say ‘not one more’ in the heavy crime areas? why not confront the criminals carrying weapons they all know they have?
They could at least have had better security at Sandy hook. Someone to be on the lookout for crazy, and some one armed to respond to it - that’s what I meant.
“I’ve been thinking about the problem of mentally ill people with guns.”
Me, too. There are far too many questions unanswered.
The biggest problem I see with this is WHO is going to define “mental illness”?
According to libs every gun-owner is mentally ill.
For me, this is the biggest issue of all.
For instance, cripplecreek is concerned with defining felons, right? We can all agree that pedophilia is a terrible thing. I’m pretty sure that we can all agree that statutory rape is a horrible felony. Statutory rape, in the cases of adults and young children, is driven by pedophilia.
Pedophilia is a mental illness. This is an indisputable fact. It also happens to be included as a mental illness in the APA’s DSM-IV.
Now, a funny thing about the APA. They are a bunch of liberals. And they are working to remove pedophilia as a mental disorder. Suddenly, something very wrong becomes “okay” because a bunch of liberals said it is.
This is the most important issue: THE LIBERALS ARE CURRENTLY THE ONES DECIDING WHAT IT MEANS TO BE MENTALLY ILL. They are trying to normalize pederasty. If they can do that, who’s to say that they won’t declare conservatism, or Christianity, or anything else like that a mental illness? Putting restrictions on mentally ill people is like handing the gun-grabbers a golden ticket to taking away the guns of ALL people, mentally ill or not.
LOL I hope you didn’t waste too much time writing it because I don’t bother reading crap like that from people who prove their own instability in the first few sentences.
People automatically assume that I mean a whole range and degree of mental illness. I don’t, I’m talking about serious mental illness like full on schizophrenia type mental illness. I’d like to see immediate family members have greater influence over making such determinations.
In the case of criminals, its a simple matter of putting some sense into trial and sentencing. Not everyone who commits an intentional act of murder necessarily deserves a life sentence but that’s what juries are supposed to be for. Other people are animals who have no place in society and never will. I have a cousin who got a “life” sentence for beating an old man to death with a baseball bat and my cousin will be out in about 10 more years. In my opinion he is the kind who should never get out. In another case we have a guy due for release this summer after nearly 50 years for the rape and murder of a 7 year old and 12 year old girl. He should never get out, I don’t care if he’s “cured” or served his time.
In the case of criminal negligence causing death or crimes of passion causing death, I wouldn’t be likely to give someone a life sentence for something they didn’t intend to do. Again this is something that can be handled with sensible juries and judges.
The simple fact is that background checks do absolutely nothing to prevent crime. All they do is record legal gun owners. We used to hand weapons back over to inmates upon release if the weapons were included in their property.
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