Posted on 10/08/2004 9:29:52 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
I have the very same thinking as you, when it comes to animals.
Grew up on a farm too. Have the best respect and love of animals. Just don't see them as human.
Seriously, he should be the tackling dummy for the local police department's K-9 corps.
In California dogs are considered "property"- "real property". So it is a property crime committed with violence.
There are some truly "nutty" people on this forum claiming to be conservatives.
And I shouldn't be surprised that "Mr. Law" is one of them.
But we don't do we ?
While at the same time we can all hold hands and sing Kumbaya. That will certainly teach those bad people who abuse animals a lesson.
Again, this should not be a felony charge. I could understand a misdemeanor with a fine but nothing more.
If I really wanted to be cruel to a mouse, it is no one's property and I would still be tried under the same animal cruelty charge there.
So it is likely not only a simple property violation claim.
You don't live in CAlifornia where the courts and the prisons let folks out of the big pen all too soon...In texas and other reasonable places this guy wouldn't have been out on the streets to even commit this awful act. I am glad he is going away for the rest of his life and I am happy that my taxes will go for his incarceration....It is his history of previous violent crimes that earned him the dubious distinction....Look if you don't want to go to jail don't commit a crime OK???
So the fact that psychologists think he might have shown a "warning sign" for committing future crimes is reason to punish him now? Punish him more severely for this crime because of a future act which has not yet happened, and may never happen?
Assault with a deadly weapon in 1986 and those were the days when everything was being bargained down
"He should be on his knees thanking God that the German Shepherd was not mine.
I'd have shot him, cold, and never thought a thing about it, had he beheaded my dog."
I agree. I think much more highly of my dogs than most humans I know. They were/are intelligent, honest, loyal, protective, and consistent Republicans. What more could one ask in a friend?
Three strikes, Scotty. The fact that he's still breathing after beheading a dog ought to be some comfort to him as he becomes someone's girlfriend.
I've watched my uncle shoot his best farm dog (and his best friend..truth be told). He had that dog for six or seven years. But one day, the dog was missing, and he couldn't find him. Next day, when he showed up, he had blood on his chops.
My uncle took down a rifle and shot him between the eyes. Crying when he did it.
But, he had no choice.
Law of the land.
He couldn't have a straying dog. Not in the country side.
What state do you live in moron? California has had a tough three strikes law for quite awhile now...If you don't want to go to jail don't be a felon with a violent rao sheet....You do not understand the current laws in Calikfornia so don't lecture on "hjow" it should have been charged...The man is a violent guy on antipsychotic drugs....locked away is the only SAFE place for him and US
Criminals, when they commit their third strike, know that they already have two strikes against them. It really amazes me that these criminals don't seem to understand that the time has come to QUIT COMMITTING MORE CRIMES!
Let's see, what about intentional "cruelty" makes one a true conservative ? Nope can't see it.
Now, if he had beheaded his girlfriend, he won't have gotten off a lot easier. Dummy, what was he thinking?
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