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Originally Posted by mtairygirl
so it's okay to rob a bank as long as a gun isn't used?  |
I was really starting to worry but thank God someone came along who has a working brain!
What this judge said confirms my worst suspicions. The gov't and a large segment of the public no longer really care all that much about crime or the criminals who commit it.
I have a news flash for the judge -- sentence criminals harshly and criminals who use guns even more harshly. No, you don't give a bonus for not using a gun as if that's some remarkably good conduct that deserves the judge's admiration. You do give the added penalty for using the gun.
We've arrived at a place where crime is so rampant that the judges are now proud of the criminals if they commit their crimes in a certain way? I don't think so.
Leniency for the guilty scum is punishment for the innocent victims.
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– Brigadier General Julius C. Holmes
Allied Forces Headquarters
4 March 1943