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Originally Posted by Derek Sutton
^Or the (repeat) victims and their community could sleep easy at night and live without fear knowing that the perpetrator is locked away for another 20 some years. And how on earth do you get someone more violent? He had reoffend multiple times with little to no jail time and went on to commit one of the worse mass murders ever in Canada. You are primarily locking them up to keep their community and then public at large safe, regardless of how they got in their situation.
I’m not sure where you’d draw the line at protecting the victims, is it after the 8th attack? 10th attack? 20th attack? Because you certainly seem ok with slaps on the wrist after a 7th attack. I’d say if someone is attacked a third time, there is no way they should have to ever worry about being attacked again.
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Jail is about the absolute best way to make someone more violent, they lose any reason or practise at being calm, they lose all connections to the outside world and so lose any reason to be less violent, they become used to living in a violent world without hope, if I put you in there for 20 years you would very likely become a violent institutionalised reoffender, that is just how you survive in jail, if you weren't violent before you went in you learn to be or you die.
As to what I'm okay with? well that depends, this guy might be the worst most violent guy in the world who needed to be locked up forever, his actions tend to suggest that but I have known just as many guys with records like his who weren't particularly terrible, they were drunks living in a violent world were fights break out all the time and the cops just charge everyone, where relationships, marriage's were also endless drunken fights were both the guy
and his partner had 6 or 7 domestics on each other, and I have known a crap ton of guys who got arrested for a domestic when they didnt start the fight at all, guys tend to get charged no matter what
It is easy to decide he should have been locked up after he committed the worst knifing spree in Canadian history but you are suggesting locking up 10 or 20 of my foster kids for life, along with thousands of other guys like them on the off chance they might go on a stabbing spree based on a record that looks really bad at first glance but often when you dig down in to it is a lot different than it might seem, one of my kids got an assaulting a peace officer charge which made no sense to me as he wasnt a violent kid, he told me and I believe him that the cop picked him up for being drunk, spat on him and called him a dirty drunk wagon burner, hell I would have taken a swing at the copper for that.