If I was on the jury he’d get the death penalty. I guess I’m less tolerant of first degree murder than you. The fact you would excuse a murder over $40 is disgusting. One of the biggest problems we have in this country right now is the fact we are making murder into just another crime with sentences of 10 or 20 years, even less. All first degree murders should be death penalty, period. Death should be the sentence for aggravated rape also.
He deserves time killing someone over 20-40 dollars.
So far it’s just me and you don’t see him as a hero
It’s not just over the 40 dollars. It’s the principle of the thing. Some things you do in Texas, and you’re gonna get your lamp blowed out in return. So don’t do those things.
It has always been thus....
100% agree with your response.
Unfortunately, that is modern FR. A growing number of silly people who don’t consider the fact that a person who would kill a man over $40 is most probably a BIGGER criminal than a parking lot scammer. Someone who can switch-on to kill mode that quickly is either a gangbanger of sorts, or someone with extremely limited (and dangerous) impulse control.
All you need to do is look at FR posts from 10-15-20 years ago, and compare them with most posts nowadays.
The politics of Democratic Underground fortunately haven’t taken root here (we are still for small government - for now although that has been slowly changing towards larger government, God, liberty, the Constitution, etc), but the stupidity of DU most definitely took root!