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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
the trouble is it is never really that cut and dry, you are usually going to get a little from column a and a little from column b and in some ways the violent robber is less of a threat to society than the delusional alcoholic who violently lashes out, the robber just wants your money, the real question is whether Canada is doing a reasonable job of dealing with violent crime in general, not just looking at one horrific likely never to be repeated event and making policy based on our revulsion for that and our general 'feelings' that crime needs to be dealt with and there is some magic solution we have never tried before, locking people up for long stretches, that will fix things
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Agree it isn't cut and dry, but there are differences in these cases. My comment was more on the perspectives posters have had and that there is a gap in what people are saying.
I am not positing a solution in any way. Just my take on the comments.