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Have you actually read any of my posts? It sure doesn't seem like it.
The guy was high when he did this. His record showed that any time he committed a crime, he'd been high. There was no record of violence on his part when he wasn't high.
Does that help your understanding?
Ah, correlation equals causation. You know, I bet that his record also showed that any time he committed a crime, he was wearing shoes, and there was no record of violence on his part when he wasn't wearing shoes. Clearly the shoes caused the crimes. We need to start arresting the shod right now and giving them tough prison terms, to fight this scourge.
Does that help your understanding?
Does that help your understanding?
No, it does not. Do you favor the creation of laws for every anecdote in history?
I don't care if some guy commits rape and murder only when he is high, drunk, angry, unhappy, or whatever. There are literally millions of us that don't. You believe that it is a proper government power to take things away from us because of the actions of others. That is a belief of a collectivist who thinks the good of society outweighs that of the individuals.
I believe we must punish the rapist and the murderer whatever their motivation may be. Being high while committing a crime should be an aggravating circumstance during sentencing, not a mitigating one. Drug abusers who commit crimes should receive harsher sentences not more lenient ones. But people who are not committing crimes should not be punished. Period.