Thursday, April 11, 2013

Glitch in the System

As American's our society prides itself among others on our justice system, with its elaborate checks and balances as far as the eyes can see. But what happens when there is a glitch in the system, one that was not foreseen by our forefathers, one that the people in power choose to overlook because there are more pressing issue; which by the way there always are and always will be. The glitch i speak of relates to the resent mass acts of violence that have been popping up in the most unexpected of places throughout the united states. For those who commit these acts, and live to "face the consequences", they have jail time to look forward to. Jail, the second ultimate punishment next to lethal injection, instituted to punish the offenders and turn them from their evil ways. You commit a crime, you go to jail, that is how the system works. But every criminal defense lawyer with a brain larger than a pea will plead the state of insanity for their client. Insanity excludes them from facing the aforementioned correctional system, instead they get to live a life in which they get all the medications they need, 3 square meals a day, recreational time, etc. All funded and payed for by the victims families and the rest of the good citizens of this great nation. I see a problem in this, one that shall not be addressed for a very long while. Until then, i hope and pray that tragedy's the likes of the stabbings at Lone-star Community College in Cypress do not continue to occur.

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