I have several reactions:
#1.. its not the death penalty that would solve this problem of felons having control over our streets.....its that they keep getting released again and again...ala Rodriques in Minnisota......people that attack other people in violent ways should have the stiffest punishment of all.....we can stand to let the cat killers and the pot smokers and the cigarrette smokers go free.....
But no, we have to drag the Rush Limbaughs thru the justice system to prove some big political point for the damn leftist prosecutor in Florida....wonder how many felons he has not prosecuted to the fullest just so he can make some political hay....
#2...we can all fool ourselves that if only we tell our children to not do this and not do that and blah and blah and blah for a million zillion years, but no one is safe, not child, not woman and not man, when we have these sociopathic criminals running around.....
perverts are managing to enter homes and steal or kill children right under their parents noses, they attack any and all, no matter how they dress or what they look like....male or female, young or old...
how dare we forsake our children to live in a world that the innocent have to live deprived of safety and freedom just so Joe Rapist can be "rehabilitated"...
we are making our childrens' lives so burdened with fear, and that is not right...
instead of thinking how we have to change every form of freedom we have to accomodate the felons, why don't we instead make the damn felons accomodate us?