F*O*A*D wrote:
On 6/14/14, 7:55 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 6/14/2014 6:14 PM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 6/14/14, 5:55 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 6/14/2014 5:41 PM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 6/14/14, 3:12 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 6/14/2014 12:17 PM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 6/14/14, 12:05 PM, Califbill wrote:
F*O*A*D wrote:
On 6/14/14, 11:07 AM, Califbill wrote:
F*O*A*D wrote:
On 6/13/14, 11:21 PM, Califbill wrote:
F*O*A*D wrote:
On 6/13/14, 2:45 PM, Califbill wrote:
F*O*A*D wrote:



I don't shoot critters.


You swerve and run over people and critters.


No, Bilious, I don't swerve to run over people but I do
swerve to
avoid
hitting a critter.


You already stated you broke a burglars legs via your truck.
Therefore you
swerve to run over people.


Yet another example of how what is left of your brain
malfunctions.
What makes you think a "swerve" was involved? You just assumed
that. The
conclusions you draw from what is posted here usually are wrong.


You did not drive straight, or you would not have pinned the
burglar. As
usual, you are truth challenged.


We'll explain this for the terminally stupid...

The thief was in my garage, loading up his car with my stuff.
When I
clicked on the opener in my truck, the garage door opened and the
thief
crossed from the passenger side of his car and over to the driver
side of
my truck. I drove straight forward and pinned him.

Do you need a diagram?




Attempted murder? Assault by deadly weapon? If you had shot him in
the
leg
with a 1/2 oz bullet jail time as he was not a danger to you. No
you
attack with a 5000 pound bullet. You still steered the vehicle.



Nice wiggle, Bilious. He was coming at me with the same tire iron he
used to pry open the front door of the house. No steering or swerving
was involved. He got a 20-year sentence (he was involved in a lot of
break-ins and drug sales) and his girlfriend accomplice got a shorter
sentence for testifying against him.

I actually wrote to the prosecutor and objected to the length of the
sentence. Far too long.



Let me get this straight. A guy with a previous record of multiple
break-ins and drug sales breaks into your house/garage, starts loading
his vehicle with your stuff, threatens you with a tire iron and you
objected to the length of his prison sentence?


At the time, the prosecutors and judges in that area were handing out
7-1/2 year sentences for second degree murder. Remember, this was
Florida, where life is cheap. I thought 20 years for a burglar was
steep. Nowadays, of course, if you are white and in Florida, you can
shoot a black kid and not be found guilty.




According to you he wasn't "just" a burglar. He was also a drug dealer
with multiple records.



He gpt 20 years on the burglaries. I don't remember the details, but I
got a letter from the prosecutor. I had asked her why some of the
murderers she prosecuted got relatively short sentences.

Almost unique in the western world, we hand out astonishingly long
sentences to criminals. I wonder how much of that has to do with the
privatization of prisons and contractual requirements to keep the cells
filled.


Only you would wonder about that. Big Business. Most of us are happy
to see criminals off the streets.



Actually, there are lots of people concerned about the privatization of
prisons. The practice is full of abuses, and should be abolished. We
incarcerate a larger percentage of our population than any other modern
western country, and for longer terms, too. This is an offshoot of the
private prison phenom... It is immoral to create new crimes and
incarcerate more people for more time in order to meet contractual
obligations of a for-profit prison.

Of course, raising this sort of issue in this bastion of right-wingedness
is an exercise in futility.


We incarcerate more people because of the War On Drugs. Cops / government
/ drug dealers all like the extra profit from a failed war. Cost more than
the Middle East Wars.