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To: i88schwartz

I know a number of 4th gen Mexican Americans close by who have the same “issue” but I’m almost sure they wont try to harm anyone. This is all on thew EF BEE AYE’s hands, all blood and all. They simply dropped the ball and it cost American lives (and illegals too)


4 posted on 02/15/2018 10:28:17 AM PST by beergarden
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To: beergarden
I've long thought such flagrantly guilty mass murderers should have all their federal privacy shields judicially removed. I'm sick and tired of all the 'authorities' saying they can't discuss whatever preceded this because of the perp's privacy rights. I suspect too often the 'authorities' are hiding their own malfeasance behind the perp's privacy shield. If you believe the death penalty is appropriate for such then certainly we should also be able to kill their 'privacy.' If you don't believe in the death penalty, but want to lock them up for a long time, shouldn't you accept opening all their juvenile records, counseling records, etc. so long as that is done with due process and in ways to not impinge on the still legitimate privacy rights of the innocent. I don't care a d*mn about whether a properly convicted mass murderer is embarrassed by his coming out. Heck, maybe the risk of becoming so embarrassed might dissuade some from becoming perps.

And, just maybe, dispassionate, public, examination of all that evidence will lead society to recognize patterns that let us prevent future mass murders. Seems to me an awful lot of these were alleged to have warning signs in advance. There used to be a common sense category of 'dangerous lunatics' to which you could be assigned and for which you could be institutionalized, before proving your membership by inflicting mass casualties. And that we'd been able to do that without shipping all political dissenters to Soviet style 'psych' hospitals. Study the heck out of the worst cases. Let different jurisdictions legislate different remedies. Compare their results and adjust accordingly.

40 posted on 02/15/2018 11:50:19 AM PST by JohnBovenmyer (Waiting for the tweets to hatch!)
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