That was the logic behind hanging horse thieves. The regular and judicious use of the contraption shown below transformed Ft. Smith from a lawless frontier town into a nice town of church goers in less than a generation:
In Texas, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, and California there are a lot of places where if you steal a fellow’s car, you have given them a death sentence.
I would say that stealing a car should be a felony, and a shooting offense. Disagree with that if you want.
In a perfect world there would be no crime. In a close approach to that perfect world a perpetrator would be suddenly shot just before he could commit a crime.
I would say that stealing a car should be a felony, and a shooting offense. Disagree with that if you want.
No disagreement here!
In Texas, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, and California there are a lot of places where if you steal a fellow’s car, you have given them a death sentence.
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In the old west, stealing horses would get you hanged. Not too many horse thieves back then.
That was the logic behind hanging horse thieves. The regular and judicious use of the contraption shown below transformed Ft. Smith from a lawless frontier town into a nice town of church goers in less than a generation:
What about Governor Walker’s Wisconsin?? Gets colder than can be there. What about Merle Haggard? That is what he was sent to prison for.