Thursday - July 26, 2012

jeesh. i really have to stop reading newspapers

Here’s a view from one Brit twit and the comments are just as shit-faced.  You know. Take a little truth if you can fine it and then bend to suit your left wing pol. agenda.

I read this in a paper today and naturally, I get PO’d and just have to share the frustration.

Look at this jerk. Spare us from US justice?  Oh, like the so called justice here is something to shout about. Or like we’re about to force it on him.
Schmuck!  Him and Bloomberk.

Here ya go.

Spare us from gun-slinging US justice

The DA decides on the death penalty after consulting victims’ families
JOHN WALSH THURSDAY 26 JULY 2012

The popular American TV drama series Justified, now in its fourth series, concerns a trigger-happy US marshal called Raylan Givens who fights crime in his (modern-day) native Kentucky. Most episodes culminate in a shoot-out, in which a dim bad guy draws his weapon, but Givens draws faster and kills him. “I was justified,” he tends to mutter to his aghast superiors. “He pulled first.”

It’s the spirit of the Old West, in other words, a time when everyone wore a pistol and being faster on the draw was more manly than being a peace-lovin’ varmint. Some of that spirit seems to have gripped the people of Colorado in the wake of last Friday’s heinous cinema massacre. Something must explain why 2,887 Coloradans reacted to the killings and woundings, not by begging for strict gun controls, but by heading for Guns & Ammo stores and getting tooled up themselves.

Their logic is simple but mad. “If ONE person inside that theatre [had been] armed, this situation would NOT have been as bad as it is,” read a Facebook post. And if 20 people were armed? That would work, wouldn’t it? Instead of a lone madman blazing away in a movie theatre, you could have lots of them shooting in the darkness, every gunslinger having a pop at everyone they reckoned was the baddie – each confident that, at all events, he’d be justified.

Moviegoers are now, understandably, on a hair-trigger of concern and paranoia about the people sitting next to them. Panic broke out in an Arizonan cinema when a drunkard, creating a disturbance during The Dark Knight Rises, was nabbed by security guards. How long until a similar rowdy is dispatched in a hail of bullets because he might have had homicidal intentions? The shooters would say they, too, were justified.

Arizona’s gun laws are already so lax that you can keep a gun concealed in your car’s glove compartment (but if you’re pulled over by a cop, you have to mention the fact). Courses on concealing your weapon about your person are commonplace. More and more nervy, flickering-eyed citizens will soon be packing heat, looking to see if someone’s about to beat them to the draw, as if 21st-century Denver were the OK Corral in 1881.

And just when you thought you’d heard enough twisted logic, you discover that, in Colorado, the death penalty can be given for first-degree murder – but the District Attorney decides whether to apply it after consulting the victims’ families. This most crucial of all laws is decided, not by debate in Senate or Congress, not by referendum majority, but by the bereaved. We are in classic Western territory here, where vengeance is heroic, the Colt 45 rules and the law holds its hands up in despair – like William Holden, just before everyone is shot to hell at the end of The Wild Bunch.

I think we can all concede the one point about a lot of people firing away in a dark theater. Can’t we?  I understand that. It would be a serious concern.
But I don’t care for his take on the DP in Co. or the input from a victim’s family.  Why not. The family is affected forever and ever. Why shouldn’t their input be taken into account?

And just for good measure, here are a couple of comments. Like it’s their damn business.

You are right. The popular American weekly show 60 minutes reconstructed Columbine like events with people ‘armed’. In every case the ensuing result was a bloodbath with numerous casualties from paniced people firing blindly.

In fact a gunman last year killed a number of armed officers in America before one was able to get a shot off. These were weapon trained police officers- yet they had no time to reach for their gun aim and shoot.

Yet the Gun lobby in the states will use these horrific events to promote their campaign to get even college kids armed with guns

stevehill6 • 9 hours ago −
“How long until a similar rowdy is dispatched in a hail of bullets because he might have had homicidal intentions? The shooters would say they, too, were justified.”

Or, in Florida, because he just looked at you a bit funny, under Jeb Bush’s psychotic stand your ground law?

The impact on victims is something any judge must take into account in sentencing. But as you say, Colorado seems to have elevated the role of the victims into legalised lynch mob. I can’t think of any people less qualified to objectively determine whether any “good” can come from taking yet another life.

stupid damn left wing source And maybe one or two of you will write a comment or two at their site. Assuming they’ll even accept it.

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