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Sentencing in Australia is a disgrace

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jono_oz said:
Of course - we should all be able to carry guns and shoot anyone who enters our property! Look how well that works in the USA.. so few people die of gun related injuries there ...... Oh wait ... that chart is upside down too
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I'm fairly sure that most gun deaths in the US are not caused by legally-owned firearms. It should be noted that a number of other countries have high ownership of firearms but do not suffer the same problems. Canada is one example. Don't blame gun ownership. We have strict gun rules here and gun crime is on the rise, and they're not legally-owned firearms.
 
Anyone catch 60 Minutes last night? A reasonable segment on some very lenient sentences given to some animals for an Early Guilty Plea. This plea basically takes all evidence and witnesses/victims out of the case.

Perhaps someone has been reading your thread Mr B.
 

Yes I saw it, it's a shame they just cant lock these people up indefinitely.

They will be on the street again and perhaps you will cross their path.

But who gives a toss, not the judiciary or the Govt, perhaps after they murder you or me they might get the message, I wish it was one of them that experienced it though.
 

I agree. All John Howard's much lauded gun control laws do is ensure that the only civilians who can carry weapons are criminals.
 
That witch that starved her daughter in NSW got life.

No justice in the world, burn her at the stake and we can all feast on her.
 
Can anyone who would do this be considered sane? A considerable proportion of the inmates in our jails are actually mentally ill.

Maybe this woman is just evil. I just can't conceive of any remotely normal human being starving a child.
 
Julia, please do not confuse mental illness with people who just do not give a s???t. Even a mentally ill person is capable of determining whether they are doing right or wrong. They just did not care and some people are just evil.

Both the mother and father will get what they deserve. There is only one crime that you do not want to go to jail for, that is hurting children. Even the most hardened and vicious inmates have children.

They will receive the same treatment for the rest of their lives that they gave their daughter, torture.

If I had the authority I would simply starve them to death and feed what is left to the sharks.

An eye for an eye
 
I was suggesting mental illness as a possibility because I find the concept of anyone knowingly starving a child incomprehensible.

And I disagree that anyone with any mental illness still can distinguish right from wrong. Some illnesses, yes, but in a psychotic state, normal reasoning is suspended.
 
Julie, I think we are on the same path, I just don't like to catagorise people, someone who has a sever mental illness may not be able to determine right from wrong but there are many people who have mental illnesses that can.

I think your earlier comment is true, they were just evil.
 
Calliope said:
I agree. All John Howard's much lauded gun control laws do is ensure that the only civilians who can carry weapons are criminals.
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Now they have to work out how to pick them up.

Metal detectrors maybe?
Automatic explosives sniffing devices?
 
Mark Wilhelm in the Brimble trial has been released after the jury failed the reach a majority verdict on the manslaughter charge. I guess that means that were tied at 6 all.

No decision has been made on whether there will be a retrial.
 
Calliope said:
Mark Wilhelm in the Brimble trial has been released after the jury failed the reach a majority verdict on the manslaughter charge. I guess that means that were tied at 6 all.

No decision has been made on whether there will be a retrial.
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Maybe her friends or family will reach a verdict and sentence him.
 
Calliope said:
Mark Wilhelm in the Brimble trial has been released after the jury failed the reach a majority verdict on the manslaughter charge. I guess that means that were tied at 6 all.

No decision has been made on whether there will be a retrial.
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A majority is actually 10 out of 12 in a criminal trial.
 

That will happen sure as night follows day.
 
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