Subj : Gun Control reasons
To   : Angus McLeod
From : The Lizard Master
Date : Sat Sep 03 2005 08:23 am

  Re: Gun Control reasons
  By: Angus McLeod to The Lizard Master on Fri Sep 02 2005 09:47 pm

 >   Re: Gun Control reasons
 >   By: The Lizard Master to richardw on Fri Sep 02 2005 09:51:00
 > 
 >  > I stil don't understand how the death penalty will deter people from kill
 >  > people.
 > 
 > AFAIK, it functions in two ways:
 > 
 > 1)  It remove a particular killer from the scene, ensuring that (s)he
 >     don't do any more killing.  A fool-proof deterent, IMHO.
 > 
 > 2)  It serve as an example/warning to other would-be killers, as to what
 >     they can expect to happen to them if they actually do kill.  For this
 >     to be a reasonable deterent, the chance of execution would have to be
 >     high.  It doesn't serve as much of a deterence to others if only one
 >     in every 10,000 convicted murderers is executed.  Those might be
 >     considered acceptable odds by too many would-be killers.

People still kill in Texas.

---TLM

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