First, thanks for the deeper discussion on topics that need it. How about a dose of common sense? Despite the risk of sounding trite, we run our legal system like a lottery and lots of criminality that could and should be stopped, is dealt a slap on the wrist. Aren't we glossing over some relevant history? Take for example the man who crushed an innocent man's skull with a cinder block.
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What happened to the men who attacked Reginald Denny?
Williams' lawyers successfully argued that he had not intended to kill Denny; he was found not guilty of attempted murder, assault, and aggravated mayhem, and convicted of four misdemeanors and simple mayhem, while Watson was convicted of a single misdemeanor assault charge.
Instead being caught on video, and then serving every day of what he deserved, 25 to life, Williams was paroled in four years, only to then commit murder.
How about, to set an example for criminals about how society deals with gun violence, enforcing the laws we already have on the books, rather than passing more laws that only the law abiding will ever be affected by? How about, to put a dent in the carnage of drug dealing thugs, and their territorial mayhem, we punish the guilty with the same zeal as we seek workarounds to the legal rights of responsible owners and users of guns? Would Mr. Denny's attackers have avoided him if he had been able to wave them off with a firearm? In California, the only carry permits issued go to celebrities and the politically connected. Regretfully, Mr. Denny was neither.
First, thanks for the deeper discussion on topics that need it. How about a dose of common sense? Despite the risk of sounding trite, we run our legal system like a lottery and lots of criminality that could and should be stopped, is dealt a slap on the wrist. Aren't we glossing over some relevant history? Take for example the man who crushed an innocent man's skull with a cinder block.
This is from Wikipedia:
What happened to the men who attacked Reginald Denny?
Williams' lawyers successfully argued that he had not intended to kill Denny; he was found not guilty of attempted murder, assault, and aggravated mayhem, and convicted of four misdemeanors and simple mayhem, while Watson was convicted of a single misdemeanor assault charge.
Instead being caught on video, and then serving every day of what he deserved, 25 to life, Williams was paroled in four years, only to then commit murder.
How about, to set an example for criminals about how society deals with gun violence, enforcing the laws we already have on the books, rather than passing more laws that only the law abiding will ever be affected by? How about, to put a dent in the carnage of drug dealing thugs, and their territorial mayhem, we punish the guilty with the same zeal as we seek workarounds to the legal rights of responsible owners and users of guns? Would Mr. Denny's attackers have avoided him if he had been able to wave them off with a firearm? In California, the only carry permits issued go to celebrities and the politically connected. Regretfully, Mr. Denny was neither.