Maybe a solution?

[Honda]

When people do what that deranged evil fool did yesterday in Buffalo I'm suggesting that we should immediately pass a federal law that requires an expedited trial and mandatory death penalty. And I am very serious.

[Mike]

Oh, hell yeah! I'm with you. Make that death penalty expedited as well by moving the appeals to the top of the court dockets. And make it mandatory regardless of the mental state of the shooter. That way they won't be getting out once some liberal doctor says they have returned to sanity and are no longer a danger.

[Truckman]

I've been called cruel and inhuman for years suggesting that very solution on this forum......Ben

[Independent Voter]

I've been called cruel and inhuman for years suggesting that very solution on this forum......Ben

Not by me. I totally agree . And as there is no doubt whether or not he did it. Walk him into court , pronounce judgement take him out back and shoot his ass.

[Kevin]

What about the obvious solution - get rid of the easy access to guns in this country? Then we not only don't have to kill anyone, potential victims get to live their lives.

I've come to the conclusion that we in this country have a bloody calculus. We are willing to allow great carnage to ensure our own easy access to firearms. We as gun owners want to maintain our ability to have and enjoy our firearms but other people bear the burden of these choices. It is an immoral point of view, in my opinion. It chooses death for the victims of gun violence in favor of any sort of meaningful restrictions on our freedom to enjoy firearms.

If that is the calculus, then at the very least, we as gun owners should own it.

Ben, if you think you have come in for disapproval, just watch the responses to this post. And the death penalty is inhumane - I'm OK with it for people who kill police officers but not for anyone else since killing a police officer is an attack not only on the individual officer but against order itself.

[Truckman]

Ben, if you think you have come in for disapproval, just watch the responses to this post.

I'll refrain from adding my own reply, Kevin...My position is well known here, and unchanged......Ben