If anyone tries telling you that you don’t need a gun, there’s something that you can show them to let them know that they’re wrong.
They’re the same people who try telling you that, in the event that you’re robbed, you should just surrender, so that everyone involved (including the criminal) gets to live to see another day.
Show them this. And if they turn their nose up at a link to Fox News, then you can know that, in their case, it’s just a matter of time.
You don’t surrender because they might literally set you on fire.
This is 50-year-old Lawrence Reed, who probably quit his day job as a facial contortionist so he could lean into his extensive criminal career, which involves 49 previous arrests, and 8 felony convictions, only two of which he served prison time for.
Apparently, he had the idea that his 50th arrest had to be something special, so he chased down a 26-year-old woman at a subway station and lit her on fire.
Behind every career criminal that remained free after over a half-dozen felony convictions, there’s an absolutely worthless judge who gave him every chance to prove that society would’ve been better off without him.
In case you missed it, here’s Judge Molina-Gonzalez literally bragging about being a diversity hire:
One might get the idea that left-wing judges keep releasing dangerous offenders because they hate their victims, but that’s not true. These judges love victims so much, that they keep making more of them.
In all seriousness though, if you’re a judge and someone comes before you with their Nth felony, you have to ask whether they brought their toothbrush. And if you’re not comfortable with that, then what are you doing being a judge?
If this whole sordid affair sounds familiar, then your memory doesn’t suck. It was only about 3 months prior that Decarlos Brown, who had benefited from the revolving door of left-wing justice 14 times prior, thought that 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska was reading his mind through happy magical technology that was somehow implanted into him, so he killed her shortly after she sat down in front of him. And this particular incident took place on a moving train.
Mercy is not always a virtue. Sometimes, it can be misplaced. If this is something that you cannot accept, then perhaps you can’t be a judge, because your idea of justice would be dangerous to society.
It’s outrageous crimes like this that get people creative when it comes to punishments. But I’m more interested in seeing reforms that would benefit society in the long-run.
For one thing, we need to create a disincentive for judges to repeatedly release dangerous offenders. If they took a hit to their pay any time someone they release goes on to become a dangerous offender, that may suffice. Because even if they don’t understand justice, they do comprehend their own personal incentives. And to that end, if judges want to fail at their jobs, then they can get hit right in the pocketbook. And after a certain number of failures, they’d just lose their positions as judges.
Another thing we can do is make prisons into places where people don’t want to be. Believe it or not, some people like it there, and become so accustomed to it that they don’t know how to live on the outside. And that’s a problem, because such people sometimes just commit more offenses, knowing that in prison, they have some amount of comfort that they can look forward to, and all their basic needs would be met without having to work for them.
Consider Japanese prisons: You’d have to be insane to want to be sent to one of those. Not only are Japanese prisons strictly regimented, the prisoners themselves are not even allowed to speak. Have fun trying to start a prison gang in conditions like that.
If American prisons were like Japanese prisons, people would actually want to stay out of them. Which is actually the point. It’s a punishment, after all; the point is that the prisoner isn’t getting what he wants.
So, this happened again, just three months later. Any guesses as to whether this will happen again in just a few months time? And any guesses as to how much longer this is going to continue, or whether people decide that they’re not going to take it anymore?
Magnetricity 