How did I miss this guy getting his face punched in?

[Commercecomet24]

It's horseshit. One assailant was released in April with time served... One got two years and I think the 3rd was sentenced Friday...

all were charged with Ag Asslt...

This is the reason these idiots keep doing this crap. There is no legal deterrent. We have become oh so soft in dealing with criminals.

[Bully13]

This is the reason these idiots keep doing this crap. There is no legal deterrent. We have become oh so soft in dealing with criminals.

spot on sir. instead of shame like it used to be, now there are excuses such as poverty and bad upbringing and such. Also, and I know I'll catch flack for this but society has so removed God from our lives. The answers to what ails us or so obvious yet we sit around and pretend to be confused.

[BulldogBear]

spot on sir. instead of shame like it used to be, now there are excuses such as poverty and bad upbringing and such. Also, and I know I'll catch flack for this but society has so removed God from our lives. The answers to what ails us or so obvious yet we sit around and pretend to be confused.

This^^

[IMissJack]

Let me give an example of how this ends in TX in a road rage situation. Just as the Harvey rain was ending here in Houston, and the sun began to shine, just outside my suburban neighborhood, a young man in a convertible angered another man somehow creating a road rage situation. They stopped at a red light about 100 yards from the turn in to my neighborhood, and the guy that was mad walked up to the convertible (top down) and began to punch the driver. The driver unloaded a pistol through the door, killing the man that was hitting him on the spot. This occurred about a block from where a number of national guard and police were parked, helping with the flooding, so they began performing cpr on the guy almost immediately. Hopefully, this young hot head will learn that these situations rarely end well.

[Turfdawg67]

This is the reason these idiots keep doing this crap. There is no legal deterrent. We have become oh so soft in dealing with criminals.

Ummm... that’s such a broad and factually untrue statement.

[TUSK]

Ummm... that’s such a broad and factually untrue statement.

I think 24 may mean "prison isn't a deterrent"... at least, that's how I took it....

Prisons used to be punitive, but now they are basically to segregate criminals from society...

[Hasu Dackds]

Ummm... that?s such a broad and factually untrue statement.

You also realize the population is increasing?

[TUSK]

You also realize the population is increasing?

I thought the same thing... but it's a disproportional increase....

[Hasu Dackds]

I thought the same thing... but it's a disproportional increase....

I'd like to see it broken down further into violent and non-violent crimes. I'm afraid it would tell a scary story. I imagine most of the incarcerations are dumb drug offenses, while they let assault/rape/murder criminals out at an alarming rate.