Home invasion suspects had long rap sheets

msnbc ^ | 7/24/07

[XR7]

...the parole board’s staff scoured its files Tuesday to see if any mistakes were made and couldn’t find any obvious problems. “But three people died,” Farr said. “We’re not going to say, ‘Those things happen.’ We’ve got to see if there is anything we can do that would reduce the likelihood of this happening in the future.”

No obvious problems?
How about not coddling them and keeping them locked up?

[juliej]

People must keep firearms in their houses for protection. These houses are very far apart and you can forget about your friends coming to the rescue - they will not hear a thing.

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

PING!

[Weeedley]

How about locking up the sonsofbitches who let this pair out of jail to serve their terms concurrently for murder?

[Grizzled Bear]

People must keep firearms in their houses for protection. These houses are very far apart and you can forget about your friends coming to the rescue - they will not hear a thing.

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The firearms alone are not enough. You also need solid knowledge and training in their use, frequent practice and the will to do what’s necessary.

[Little Ray]

You also need the will to use them...

[Grizzled Bear]

I thought I said that...

;-)

[TChris]

We’ve got to see if there is anything we can do that would reduce the likelihood of this happening in the future.

Lucky for you! The Founding Fathers have already answered your little dilemma.

It's called the Second Amendment.

[XR7]

We’ve got to see if there is anything we can do that would reduce the likelihood of this happening in the future.

How about swiftly executing the perps?

[brytlea]

It’s time our justice system admit that there is a subset of people who will never fit into civil society, and there is no point in giving them chance after chance. In times past they probably would have been done away with, either by whatever passed for a justice system, or by someone they harmed in some way. Today, we slap em on the wrist and release them again and again to wreak havoc on law abiding citizens.
susie

[Max in Utah]

"We’ve got to see if there is anything we can do that would reduce the likelihood of this happening in the future.”

Here's an idea for career criminals: convict them, revoke their citizenship and sell them as slaves to a far away foreign country. They can work in the mines or shovel manure for the rest of their miserable lives.

[Clam Digger]

People must keep firearms in their houses for protection.

Exactly! And pretty much for hte sam reasons we keep fire extinguishers. Guns = punk extinguishers, and could have saved this family, and our ation, from such a tragedy.

[gunservative]

My opinion about the Parole Board would get me banned for life on this board.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

“Farr said the parole board’s staff scoured its files Tuesday to see if any mistakes were made and couldn’t find any obvious problems.”....DUH?...Maybe THAT’S the problem?

[juliej]

This is a terrible loss. Terrible - I wonder what the bleading hearts in the local papers will say. I have noticed that people in the wealthier areas, such as Greenwich, tend to be very liberal.

[Resolute Conservative]

In the least a big dog. I wonder if the family owned a weapon? We will not know if he did not but if he did the anti crowd will clamor that it did not help them.

[Max in Utah]

I have noticed that people in the wealthier areas, such as Greenwich, tend to be very liberal.

Liberal guilt. It's especially prevalent among those "poor little rich kids" who never had to struggle to make a living or fend off the dregs of society.

[Koblenz]

It's not the parole board that is at fault: it's the system that allows these guys with long rap sheets to have not been locked up for life.

The younger suspect is apparently the step-grandson of conservative writer John Chamberlain.

[Clam Digger]

I have noticed that people in the wealthier areas, such as Greenwich, tend to be very liberal.

BUT! Only with other peoples money! They probably pay less taxes (income, anyway) than I do.

[goldstategop]

How about making them serve out their full sentences? Nah. Connecticut Democrats preferred to focus on gun owners' missing guns and as a result three people are dead.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus