Re: figures for gun-fetiscists

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From: Marcus J Ranum
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1993 22:35

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donb@netcom.com (Don Baldwin) writes:
>I agree with you there.  I used to be against capital punishment (being
>a good liberal and all) but I've come to believe that some people should
>be killed for the most violent crimes.

	"Capital punishment" is actually a misnomer, IMHO. What I advocate
is more like "toxic waste disposal."  There are some seriously skanky cases
of humanity out there - the Jeffrey Dahmers of the world - that I don't
want to share a planet with. I'm not saying they should be killed as a
*punishment* for their aberrations - it's just the only way I think society
can deal with them cheaply, efficiently.

	To me "punishment" implies that the punishee understands what they
did and may be deterred from doing it again by the punishment. There are
a lot of folks out there that are clearly beyond that, living at our
expense. Some of them will get back out onto the streets, and you or I
or someone we care about might be their next victims.

mjr.

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