Posted on 12/19/2011 11:09:43 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
VENTURA, Calif. (AP) -- A Southern California teenager has been sentenced to 21 years in state prison for killing a gay student during a computer lab class three years ago.
Brandon McInerney didn't speak on Monday but his attorney said his client is deeply remorseful for the murder of 15-year-old Larry King. The victim's family said they couldn't forgive their son's killer.
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This case reminds me of the Jenny Jones murder years ago, when she confronted a teen with his “admirer”, who was gay, with great fanfare. The teen was deeply embarrassed and ashamed and murdered the admirer. This Brandon kid was only 14, and clearly did not think like an adult. It is absurd to punish him like one, and not take into account the mitigating circumstances of repeated homosexual advances.
“God should be our Standard of Right and Wrong-—NOT BARNEY FRANK’s STANDARDS.”
Exactly.
In Barney Frank’s liberal standards, murderers will only be sentenced to 20 of so years and be released from prison even sooner.
God’s standards are an Eye for an Eye and under that, Brandon McInerney, if the State of California, were to enact true justice would have sentenced Brandon McInerney to death for his premeditated cold blooded murder of Larry King.
While I do think we need to work on straight kids’ tolerance of gay kids, we really need to sensitize gay kids to the danger of taunting straight kids. If a kid really is “homophobic,” let’s look at the word PHOBIC. It doesn’t mean hatred, it means fear. If someone is mortally afraid of spiders, you don’t yell at them for being a spider-hater and then toss a tarantula on them. I have seen straight kids who literally shudder if a gay kid comes into their personal space. For some, it really IS a phobic reaction. We have to teach both sides to stay out of each other’s space.
I am not a champion of this kid, but how long did the “doctor” get in the murder of Michael Jackson? How long would he have gotten if he was white? Different justice for those with money, or those of protected, or perps on protected classes, is not American.
He was not charged with, or convicted of, murder. He was convicted of involuntary manslaughter.
He was not charged with, or convicted of, murder. He was convicted of involuntary manslaughter.
I'm sorry, I can't find the constitutional right to murder gay people in my copy of the Constitution. Is it in one of those penumbras?
I know, the prosecutor treated him differently because of his race, his education, and the fact that he had money to fight. I want people punished, but since they won’t use the death penalty, which is what both of these people deserved, we have to fairly sentence people. I hate that justice is not blind, and has “its eyes” wide open, and looks at things that should not matter. The only thing that matters is the crime resulted in a death. For a doctor, he should be up for first degree murder, and executed. For the kid, he should have gotten the same. Without proper execution of justice, there are too many questions. The reason for ponderous legal legislation is, to create work for liars...I mean Lawyers to “work the system”. NOT a way to get to equal justice under the law.
How many years if the victim had been straight?
Just who do you turn to when the authorities go out of their way support the queers and vilify normalcy? Most kids don't want to turn to their parents when in awkward circumstances. There is a natural tendancy to solve your own problems. Where does a straight kid go for support in a school system? Given this school environment, I suspect he would have been told to suck it up.
“Brandon mcinerny was a violent punk and a sociopath waiting to happen. It’s a good thing he is locked up for a long time before he kills more people. He is just like those Colombine punks. He shot this boy execution style in the back of the head in front of other kids. Good riddance.”
In a way it makes me sad as America drifts even further into liberalism, this thread illustrates how even the most conservative among us are adopting the leftist view on crime of sentencing cold blooded murderers to soft prison terms so that they can be “Rehabilitated.”
If the Colombine punks were alive and in prison, these so called “conservatives” would be calling for their early release.
If the kid had a few relatives in the Mafia there wouldn’t have been a body. Fugitaboutit.
Just Law—is not UNEQUAL law-—that is the unconstitutional aspect.
There should be NO “special rights” for homosexuals. There should be no “thought crimes” punished....that is unconstitutional.
You punish acts—equally in this country. Or we used to when we were based on Constitutional Law and not John Austin’s and Barney Franks ideas of what is Just Law. We have a standard for our legal system and jurisprudence.
We go by God’s Standards. Killing a “gay” is no worse than killing a “straight” person and the idea of “thought” crimes is never constitutional.
The defendant was not prosecuted for any thought crimes or hate crimes. He got the regular sentence for voluntary manslaughter.
“If it had been a girl that shot a guy, she would be tried as a junvie and been out in four years.”
BAM. Blue ribbon at the truth fair.
“How does a 14 yo boy handle sexual advances in school, in front of others?”
I’m not sure, but what I do know that many if not most 14-18 year old girls in high school somehow figure out how to handle sexual advances from classmates and they do not resort to walking into a classroom and murdering the guy who made the sexual advances.
The school probably is more to blame than anything, for encouraging this kind of aggressive faggotry. When I was in school, this never would have occurred. The guys would have gotten together and beat this sick creep to a bloody pulp, and that would have been a quick end to it. Just like a gal would give a hearty slap in the face to some lewd guy. Had I been on the jury, I’d have been pretty easy on the young gunman.
“Given this school environment, I suspect he would have been told to suck it up.”
And over the next 21 years in prison, he will also be told to suck it up.
The jury was pretty easy on the young gunman, they could not decide between first and second degree murder. The young gunman plead guilty to second degree murder, in order to avoid a retrial and risk spending the rest of his life in prison. Maybe he was partially to blame too.
Would the guys in your old high school have done anything to straighten out a kid who brings a gun to school one day and shoots a classmate twice in the back of the head? Or, is that type of aggressive behavior someone else’s concern?
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