Allow a little vigilante justice to prevail; nobody cares much if the law is looking for them but, if they knew citizens without rules were on their trail, they might be a little less motivated to commit the crime in the first place. Let fathers and/or family members hand out punishment to rapists. Let serious gun crimes receive the death penalty with no appeals and no deal making. Require jurists pass some sort of intelligence test. Parole board members should receive the same sentence as the perp if they release someone who commits another crime. I could go on and on but some of you might swear Hitler was still alive.
Pretty much the only thing I disagree with and or would change is the part about doing the same to the perps family. It's not the criminals family's fault for what the criminal has done. In this case a public hanging should suffice...Unusual punishments are acceptable bum? Why didn't you say so? Take arsonists into the streets, pour gas on them and set them on fire and let them burn to death on public tv, preferably during prime time. Take male child molesters to a tree stump, nail their jewels to the stump and push them over backwards. Let the young, radicalized Muslims know they really aren't going to get some perverted, sexual desires granted if they blow themselves up for Allah. Also let them know that, even if it was true, you have to be careful of what you wish for. btw....what does the great Allah offer his female worshipers? If some jerk takes some hostages then take his family members hostage and do the same to his family that he does to his hostages. A weak target motivates the predator, just ask a lion how that works. Arm the weak target and motivation is diminished. Don't put nutjobs back on the streets. Make the scum in prison serve their entire sentences; no one gets out for GOOD behavior but you get to stay longer for BAD behavior. Worked on my kids.
The thing I don't get is why does the left support Islam and protect it the way they do (while crapping on Christianity) when they themselves tout themselves as for women, while accusing the republicans of a (fake) war on women? And who in their right mind believes it?
For prevention? I got nothing, short of a global power failure. Yes, I believe the media, the internet and the information age are much of the reason behind the warped brains of these small minded individuals who commit their heinous and cowardly acts. Little maggots that are led astray by religious fanatics and/or video game fantasies. They live a life of fantasy, they can't rationalize correctly. For punishment? Eye for an eye x's 10, slowly, very slowly. As you quoted Mencken, the answer "is clear, simple, and wrong". You cannot prevent mental illness. But you can sure kill it.
