Okay, I'm going to explain this in very simple terms so that you'll be sure to understand. Not because I think you're stupid, but because it's, well, kinda the foundation of liberty and deserves to be said plainly: YOU CANNOT PUNISH SOMEONE BECAUSE THEY "MIGHT" HAVE COMMITTED A CRIME, OR "MIGHT" DO SO IN THE FUTURE.



Got it? Good. Throw that principle out the door and democracy as we know it goes with it. If someone mugs you, you can shoot him for trying to mug you. You CANNOT shoot him because there's a possibility that he may have killed someone at some point in the past. Do that, and the legal/Constitutional definition of what you are changes from "innocent citizen defending himself" to "crazy vigilante who just murdered a guy because he felt like it." Do you understand this? I'm concerned here, because this isn't really a "liberal vs. conservative thing", it's a "justice system vs. lynch mob" thing. If a mugger threatens to harm you, you are well within your rights to use lethal force for protection, but if you choose to give him the money to avoid bloodshed then that's okay too. That's a choice that depends on the situation. But the possibility that he might have committed a crime at some other point in time simply CANNOT be a part of the equation here. You are not a detective, judge, jury, and executioner just because you bought a gun. There's an old man who just let his dog poop on my lawn and didn't scoop it up. By your logic, I could go blow his brains out with a shotgun because he "might" have raped someone earlier today. Do you see the insanity of what you're saying?







Also, I find it very amusing that you say I went to a "liberal indoctrination center", since I don't think I ever told you which college I graduated from. How do you know it wasn't an ultra-conservative Christian school? Or do you just assume that everyone with a college education has been brainwashed by a liberal conspiracy? If so, that's hilarious.