Pure and simple, total sarcasm.
Law is a constant balancing act, balancing the interests of justice vs. the benefits. Kill young criminals, cut their hands off, legs, decapitate, all have been done in the past. Now, we have gone the other direction, having 7-12 year olds doing drive by shootings, or younger, their records sealed, and, we teach them in prison to be excellent criminals.
It's all black and white, looking at it from the outside, but, when you get into the war zone, you get a bit more insite into what the participants are facing, and, how it affects their perspectives.
Ahh, the stuff I've watched. My favorite was the all-state wrestling champion, straight A student, who, on the way to school, was jumped by a bunch of Arabs, a wannabe gang. Seems he didn't agree with a bit of their terrorist mini-attempts to intimidate some of his friends, or, their politics, and, he had said so to their faces. These guys wanted to have their own gang, and, I was in the office when they came in, beaten up, and crying about how they had been jumped.
After a while, the truth came out. They had jumped this guy, using pipes, on the way to school. He had evaded, beat the tar out of them, used their own pipes against them, and they came whining into school.
He was expelled for fighting, and went to another high school, in retrospect, unfair, but, the best result for him, other then the nasty note on his record. Plus, he got the joy of beating that high school to a pulp in wrestling, and, winning another state title.
The Arabs got off with a wrist slap. Seems it was right after a terrorist attack, can't remember which one, and, the anti-Arab sentiment was at a peak, so, in the interest of politics, the white guy took the fall for his outspoken, honest remarks. Guess it's only free speech for a few at that high school...
I think what happened is we've swung way overboard in favor of criminal rights. While I think the middle east maybe a bit extreme in their approach, I think somewhere in the middle is where we need to be.
Also, I'm not sure that laws shouldn't be localized. What the guys in East LA, East or West Oakland, Richmond, face on a daily basis is much like what you face in war. You become used to the violence, and, it changes your values.
With kids, it's a training ground for criminals.
Finally, my humor and sarcasm is a bit based in fact. I face
second or third generations of absolute horrible learned behavior from really bad parents, to their kids, on a daily basis. When I wrote those comments, I was thinking of what happens with Iranians, Arabs, bears, lions, elephants, and many wild animals when they kill humans. They are removed from the gene pool, killed, with little benefit of trial, appeal, and legal system. Even good dog breeders, when they get a skitish, or dangerous doberman, rott, or Pyr, put the bad dog down. I had a friend with a bouvier that was just way too good at attacking, and, was just too mean to be kept alive.
I do understand folks on farms do the same. You get a mean bull, or even a cow at 1200 pounds and, it can stomp, hurt and kill you. Get's out, it takes cars and jeeps to get it back into it's pen. It's value is weighed against it's danger, and, a choice is made.
I will say in my life I've avoided having to take another human life, even when attacked, because the persons never actually pointed the gun they had at me, and, I had other avenues, and abilities, to get me out of the situation.
At my current age, those options aren't there anymore, or, are considerably diminished.
What I'm getting at is I've watched it from both sides, and,
I can see both, and sort of understand why.
I do blame the society by the way. I blame our area for not allowing more CCW permits, so when that punk pulled his gun, he didn't have 8 barrels to look down.
I blame the principal for being such a chicken, and letting the Arab wannabe gang guys try and beat this guy up. Funny, but, I wonder what she would have done if they would have killed him? Given them a metals? :barf:
Kali average school population now is 48% Mexican, and, many are illegal. That means a large chunk are outside most law enforcement, being under a non-existent federal jurisdiction. So, I blame our Federal Government, and our elected officials, AND ALL OF THE PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES THAT VOTE FOR ELECTED OFFICIALS THAT ALLOW THIS SITUATION TO EXIST. We let all these folks in, they have created that situation, and, the super liberal hippy laws allow a football coach to be stabbed because he cuts a mexican football wannabe. How about the Clinton group, and their 'free fire zone for public schools' law?:barf:
When folks want to point at someone, and say it's their fault, I do agree, except that situation was allowed to exist thanks to our apathy. We allow the government to take 5 months of earnings a year, waste it on other countries, and fail to protect our country. If you don't think we need city aide, vs. foreign aid, drive through some of the places I work in.
Heck, with all this noise about schools, etc. my current class sizes average 40,and, even though I'm straight A's in math, in math my entire life(except for a C in UC Calculus) I'm not qualified to teach math in a Kali public school, since I don't have a masters in math.
No, we allowed the monkey on our backs, and, they keep us working so hard to make a living with taxes, we all can't participate in the political process to the degree we need to be contributing...
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