Posted on 03/10/2017 8:49:28 AM PST by rellimpank
The first reported shooting of 2016, at the start of a horrendous period of gun violence in Chicago, occurred five minutes after midnight on Jan. 1 — a woman was grazed by a bullet fired through a window on South Paxton Avenue.
The first killing of 2016 happened two hours later, when a fight at a New Year's Eve party in the Grand Boulevard neighborhood spilled onto the street, leading someone to shoot 24-year-old DeAndre Holiday in the chest. Soon after, mourners arrived at the scene, including a shocked woman in a pink coat who punched a car in agony. Another woman shouted, "This is bogus! This bogus as hell! Who would do him like this?"
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Stupid.
So let me get this straight. A car is in agony over a shooting, and a woman in a pink coat punched it.
But that’s only a piece of the puzzle. How about letting John and Jane Q. Citizen more readily defend themselves. Thug hunting licenses, so to speak, have a way of culling the thug population. Or they will go elsewhere to practice their thuggery.
I was curious about this locution too. Do mountains suffer too?
How about letting John and Jane Q. Citizen more readily defend themselves.”
The EEOC and NBLRB would never allow that due to blatant discrimination based on race, they have every right to practice their chosen profession as you or I do.
oops NLRB
Re: The idea of harsher punishment for repeat gun offenders is straightforward: Anyone caught a second time with a loaded gun who shouldn’t have one is a potential menace. Harsher punishments for repeat offenders would keep dangerous criminals off the street for longer periods and send a critical message of deterrence.
Well, it is a good thing this “novel” idea was not suggested by a Republican.
LOL! I knew the sentence was off but hadn’t nailed it down. These are writers for major paper, so sad.
I know the ones near Boulder, Colorado do.
Too many liberals.
Sounds like you're channeling your inner Donald Trump.
Be better if they erected a public gallows and whipping post.
The “cruel and unusual punishment” part of the Constitution is one of my least favorite parts.
I understand that torturing people as part of an investigation is a bad idea — quality of the information may be lacking. So that’s bad.
But actual punishment? For people convicted of a crime? Whip them, hang them in public, use them as an unpleasant object lesson for others in their community.
I have no problem with that at all.
I have a much bigger problem with the long-term warehousing of people who will never contribute to society.
Oh, it has been happening for a long time. I was a precocious reader, and started reading newspapers about 1955. It was virtually unknown to see an erroneous spelling or grammatical mistake in the local daily (NOT a "major paper" by any means). About the time I got my BS om 1970, a very few were beginning to be seen, and it has continued to deteriorate ever since.
“cruel and unusual punishment”
I believe they meant no Middle Ages torture deaths, not common executions like hanging. Now the nay-sayers say any death that is uncomfortable to the executed or those viewing it is bad.
I read of a military execution in Ft Laramie back in the 1850s or so.
The condemned soldier was to be hanged but they did it differently. They put a crossbar on a tall pole like a weigh scale. One side had heavy weights on it and propped up. The other side had a rope and a noose around the condemned man’s neck.
When the brace under the weights was removed, it dropped and the condemned man flew through the air like cracking a whip and his neck was broken when he hit the end of his rope.
I see nothing wrong with it.
A trebuchet gallows? Interesting idea. Seems like an overcomplicated way to get the job done.
I imagine it made quite an impression on other troublemakers watching it.
A 2013 gun violence bill foundered in Springfield because opponents worried that long sentences would hurt crime-ridden communities by warehousing young men in prison instead of rehabilitating them.
“There is nothing which so concentrates the mind as a public hanging”
-Thomas Jefferson
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