Politicizing Mass Shootings Only Guarantees There Will Be More Of Them

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I think if maiming* was brought back as a consequence for serious violent crimes things would very quickly sort themselves out with this and many other issues. While many violent criminals might not give a shit about being executed and might not grasp the finality and emptiness of a life spent in prison, I really doubt too many criminals would risk spending the rest of their life as a limbless nugget for any crime regardless of the reason.

*in minecraft

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Nah, brutality like that has no place in a civil society. What about all the people who are later acquitted of crimes they didn't commit? No coming back from this punishment.

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There's no coming back from a carried out death sentence either, but I meant it more as a hypothetical where life in prison or the death sentence is on the table. Less about morality and more about deterrence. Many mass shooters, for instance, do it for notoriety and, at least initially, don't plan on being alive to deal with the consequences afterword. Would the possibility of not only a life sentence, but a life sentence without the ability to move independently even just to scratch your nose, make these people reconsider? I think it probably would.