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Originally Posted by stewie
^ you mentioned that every case has a backstory which is true. Does that backstory apply when it involves you and your family though? At what point does one go from a bleesing heart to a cold hearted bastard with no care for the feelings of someone.
I'll use this as an example
You own a small mom n pop style store. Some random person comes in with a illegally obtained firearm that was smuggled in from the states and points it at you or one of your family members, empties the register, runs out and is caught 20 minutes later.
I don't know about some of you guys but if I was the owner of the store I'd hope that person spends the rest of his life behind prison bars. There should be no leniency saying he made a mistake, was depressed about his wife leaving him and he'll promise to never do it again. Fuck. That.
Make punishments harder to deter people from comitting a crime.
I believe rehabilitation works, but only to a certain extent. For those who go out of their way to commit a crime such as the example I used, I consider them a lost cause.
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30 years of running a mom and pop store and we have never had a person point an illegal gun at any one working. Know multiple other store owners and neither have they. Did have a legal gun owner shoot and kill his wife with a hand gun while she was pumping gas with her 14 year old daughter.
A stolen gun from the US costs around $3000. I don't think a person who can afford a $300 gun is going to be robbing a store for a couple of hundred dollars at most.
Most robberies at gas stations happen with a knife.