I don't buy that there's nothing we can do to stop criminals and the mentally ill from killing if they want to.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think everybody who commits a violent killing is in some way crazy. But that doesn't mean we can let them off the hook for that.
We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.
We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.
Instead of investing our resources in locking people up, let's invest more of those resources in our fellow citizens so they don't end up in the system to begin with. And if they do, they can get back on their feet.
It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.
We don't want to put people in jail unless we prove that they knew they were doing something they shouldn't do.
We must hunt the terrorists down and kill them. There is no other way to respond to those so committed to the destruction of life.
You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.
I do not think we should be trying to save our freedom by killing the safeguards that keep our liberties.
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.