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I would fully support the death penalty if it wasn't for all those poor souls on Death Row or in prison for life who have been found not guilty by the Innocence Project.
One man being executed for a murder he did not commit is too many.
No, only a few. That's more Hollywood than history.
Fact is, with more people totin' guns and public executions, the crime rate was significantly lower.
I know you'll disagree, but I look at it with mathematical logic. It's better to have one innocent wrongfully convicted than to let a murderer go free and they kill more than one innocent life, because it's a smaller loss. Of course, practically speaking, with the forensic science, technological surveillance and other improvements, the chances of getting wrongfully convicted of a major felony are diminishing. Those released for wrongful conviction were typically convicted prior to things like quality DNA matching.
Ask Turtle, but I'm fine with all violent felons suffering that fate.
They had gun regulations in the old west, too. A lot of towns required you to turn in your guns at the sheriffs office before entering town and you could pick em up on your way out.
that was a local ordinance. cities have the right to pass laws as long as it didn't violate the state constitution or preemption laws.
I know you'll disagree, but I look at it with mathematical logic. It's better to have one innocent wrongfully convicted than to let a murderer go free and they kill more than one innocent life, because it's a smaller loss. Of course, practically speaking, with the forensic science, technological surveillance and other improvements, the chances of getting wrongfully convicted of a major felony are diminishing. Those released for wrongful conviction were typically convicted prior to things like quality DNA matching.
Quite right,...so a lot of towns and cities passed gun control laws which helped to reduce gun violence and crime and hardly anyone ever mentioned anything about second amendment rights in those days...nary a peep.that was a local ordinance. cities have the right to pass laws as long as it didn't violate the state constitution or preemption laws.
Quite right,...so a lot of towns and cities passed gun control laws which helped to reduce gun violence and crime and hardly anyone ever mentioned anything about second amendment rights in those days...nary a peep.
Wyatt Earp is famous for trying to enforce gun regulations.....
And one fact is usually ignored: Back then, Tombstone had far stricter gun control than it does today. In fact, the American West's most infamous gun battle erupted when the marshal tried to enforce a local ordinance that barred carrying firearms in public. A judge had fined one of the victims $25 earlier that day for packing a pistol.
"You could wear your gun into town, but you had to check it at the sheriff's office or the Grand Hotel, and you couldn't pick it up again until you were leaving town," said Bob Boze Bell, executive editor of True West Magazine, which celebrates the Old West. "It was an effort to control the violence."...read.....
Gun laws were tougher in old Tombstone - Los Angeles Times
Thats irrelevant since there hasn't been any public executions in the US in my lifetime at least not that I'm aware of. But no, I wouldn't take them because I probably wouldn't go myself.
After the Civil War and all during reconstruction there was a lot of crime and more often than not, the public sympathized more with the criminals, than they did the law.
This is my thing. I see a lot of people (read: white people) in this thread and others talking about how it's time to "move on" or how racial tension needs to be decreased. And yet, none of their behavior facilitates moving on or decreasing tension. Telling black people to "get over it" or dismissing their perspectives as "race baiting" does nothing to help anybody "move forward" and it escalates, rather than weakens, racial tension. With that in mind, the people whose priority is "moving forward" and decreasing racial tension should examine their own behavior and do whatever they can to accomplish those goals. Otherwise, it just comes across as people wanting blacks to shut up and take it.
that's the hollywood version. Earp and his brothers were one gang, the guys who lost were another. and you cannot prove your silly claim that it actually made anyplace safer. The gang that ran things didn't want armed competition.
That is another good reason. But I think big reason is the government killing people cheapens the value of life.
Politics and propaganda only function to divide people within each racial community. It certainly isn't threatening to divide the races since they were never united in the first place.divide and conquer is a common tactic of those who want the government to have more and more control of the citizens
the late great David Broder (hardly a "conservative") noted that when the wall came down, the hard left in America turned their energies from worshipping the deceased soviet union to trying to "balkanize" america by pushing group rights and group guilt in order to divide us into several warring camps
Politics and propaganda only function to divide people within each racial community. It certainly isn't threatening to divide the races since they were never united in the first place.
What I mean by 'united' is fully integrated. People of different race are associated, not united. Even interracial marriages are extremely precarious.opinion noted, not shared in its entirety. I have seen different (in terms of race) people united. Union members, NRA members, religious groups
What I mean by 'united' is fully integrated. People of different race are associated, not united. Even interracial marriages are extremely precarious.
some are some are not
You say it's class and not race or ethnicity. Among the actions I mentioned, please name one that you see common among lower-class whites or Chinese. The only other you'll find a reasonable number of is probably Mexicans.
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RGacky 3, Your conclusion might have been valid some 70 years ago, but since the overwhelming affect of Affirmative Actions policies coming into fruition, the blacks have an OUTRAGEOUS advantage over whites, or even non-blacks in ALL the spheres where RACIAL ISSUES are involved. To conclude otherwise is simply BIZZARE. Check out ANY local, state, or National election that contradicts me......or any corporation employment at any level.
And my point is that in this day and age.... not 50 years ago.... not 150 years ago...... I see no evidence of institutional racism.
Because a black person's dollar is just as valuable as a white person's dollar.
Which is why "Class-ism" if you will.... not RACISM.... is the problem in society.