Thanks for PROVING the stupidity of your thinking.

Manson was sentenced to death. When the Supremes threw out the death penalty his sentence was commuted to life in prison. Interestingly enough, he hasn't gotten out and become a Baptist preacher, nor has he killed anyone else yet. Looks like he'll be dying in prison. Due to his advancing age and/or cancer.

I'm not really for or against the death penalty because it's not something to affect me. Let's say some guy kills everyone I know and chops off my legs. Sure, I'd be pissed, upset and a million other things, but justice is not something which soothes my mind. If someone wrongs me and then apologizes, it means nothing to me. Sometimes, it even feels worse because since it does nothing for me and helps clear their conscience, it seems like they're taking even more from me. Back to my earlier example: The guy getting a life sentence would not make me feel better. I would not feel any different if he were chaired, either. In fact, the only thing in my mind which seems to justify any of it is that is he's locked away or dead, the fucker can't screw with anyone else. Coming from someone with too much anger and treading the thin line of crazy, if you're gonna do shit, you better be ready for the consequences.

I still think everyone should carry some sort of weapon: taser, mace, gun, etc...I believe crime would go straight down if the criminals didn't know how it was going to turn out. It doesn't make then any more square -- it just keeps them in the box.

By the same token, if I was wrongly convicted of a crime, I sure as fuck wouldn't want to be executed. Sure imprisonment is shit, but at least that can be undone, you couldn't un-lethally inject me.

Or the criminals won't take the chance of getting shot or wounded, and just shoot first, turning what would have been a basic mugging into homicide.

As is the 'everyone having guns makes crime go away'. Criminal behaviour isn't something thats often very planned out in the possible consequences department. But then again, I come from a country with a much lower gun possession per capita than the United states, and we all know what a
Criminal hellhole Canada is

In the world of concealed weapons, if someone had planned out a mugging then it would only make sense to do so when there was no one else around. I would hope that any time a person was getting messed with in public, other people would zap the bitch.

Plus, as alluded to earlier: I think most muggers don't wish to kill. Either for moral or legal reasons. Otherwise, I think we'd see WAY more killings and virtually no muggings at all. In a person's mind, it is usually easier to rationalize theft over murder.

Humans make mistakes and humans lie making being 100% sure of guilt/notguilty very hard to prove, as has been stated before its very hard to unkill someone.

Crime is lower in your country because poverty and racial issues are much less of a problem there, and because your country has a much better social safety net. Gun ownership has little, if anything, to do with it.