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Originally Posted by TrapX
Perhaps increasing the consequences of using a deadly weapon to intentionally commit a crime. The death penalty comes to mind as a mandatory minimum. Allow citizens and the police to use deadly force in more scenarios, especially when there is clear and obvious circumstances, and the criminal identity is unquestioned. Like a car driver fleeing and leading to a chase. Any criminal with a gun used in a crime. Finding a felon with a gun. Theft of a gun. Also applies to all deadly weapons like bombs, arson, cars, etc. Eliminate all innocent by insanity; it becomes guilty by insanity. Lower the age for being considered an adult. Ask the liberals at what age a child can decide what s3x they want to pick, and that is the age they are charged as an adult. (think 2nd grade, 8 years old)
Adjust trials for cases where evidence is unquestionable. Such as someone shooting at police, and criminal gets shot. Directly taken into custody. Go straight to trial, not the hospital, and sentenced to death. Carry out that punishment immediately.
Notice the theme here is to go after criminals, not law abiding citizens, or the police who protect us.
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I certainly agree with the spirit of the post being answered here, if not all of the points.
In essence, yes. We do need to consequate ALL crimes more strictly than we do now. Courts have turned into revolving doors where violent repeat felons are all too often the recipients of plea bargains to the point that the price they pay is minor compared to the penalties that their original charge would have earned them. A particular sore point with me, at least back in Minnesota, is that in cases where a felon uses a gun in a crime, usually the first charge dropped in any plea bargain seemed all to often to be illegal possession of a firearm. Maybe it is that way in Florida too; I don't know.
But it has been my opinion for some time that being charged with the illegal possession of a firearm should by law NEVER be plea-bargained away, and if found guilty on that particular charge than the convicted felon receives a mandatory sentence of ten years incarceration ON TOP of any other penalty the judge sees fit to impose for any of the other crimes the criminal has been convicted of in this particular instance, and that those additional ten years must be served consecutively after all other penalties have been paid, NOT concurrently. No exceptions.
Another point (and this one will be about as welcome as an attack of flatulence in church, at least for some folks) is that in cases where the good guy uses his/her gun to stop a crime in progress and the bad guy or guys are wounded or killed in the process, the good guy should never be held liable for any damages inflicted on the bad guy in any civil suit brought by family or friends of the bad guy as a consequence. This was another thing that we saw all too often in Minnesota: hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions of dollars being awarded to family members where habitual criminals were put to rest by a good guy with a gun, often for "causes" for bringing the suit that were beyond ludicrous. It was a gravy train, not justice.
We've been coddling criminals long enough at the expense of the good folks long enough. Time to stop.