“Blundell and John Pordage did not know each other. They only came into contact because Blundell and his friends were getting petrol for a stolen motorbike and John happened to be at the same petrol station.
“Most reasonable people would consider the verbal exchanges that took place as nothing more than banter.
"A reasonable person would have walked away from a potential confrontation. They wouldn’t have shot someone in a rage.”And then fled the country. Don't forget that.
But aren't we lucky that in this country we don't have the death penalty, so we can now pay to keep this murderer behind bars until he can convince a parole board he's reformed?
And also that we don't have a right to bear arms in this country, so that a criminal in possession of an illegal weapon knows he's free to shoot, and his potential victim isn't going to be similarly armed?
Truly, we are so much better off, aren't we?
4 comments:
If they bring back the right to armed defence then the death penalty becomes moot.
I don't believe in the death penalty now. It is so easily used by the Stasi for an abuse of Justice.
Plead guilty for this offence or we will push for the death penalty is abused with frequency in the US.
The powers that be prohibited personal arms for their own protection, not ours. May they all rot/burn in whatever hell they believe in.
Lord T,
But we do the same, just not with the death penalty. And in the US, the alternative is often life without parole, which is a punishment worse than death.
Very common for a guilty plea to be taken into consideration when sentencing.
"If they bring back the right to armed defence then the death penalty becomes moot."
Well, today's Reuben Gregory verdict shows just how likely that is!
"The powers that be prohibited personal arms for their own protection, not ours. "
And reserved for themselves the right to ensure they were protected if we disobeyed...
"And in the US, the alternative is often life without parole, which is a punishment worse than death. "
Unlikely to be so in our soft prison system, though.
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