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Originally Posted by JohnBua
I have no problem with locking anyone up for life. There are how many billions of people in this world? And how many billions of them manage to NOT be violent criminals? Its the easiest thing in the world. Lock em up, they shall not be missed.
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Unless it's someone in your family.
You'll need to explain yourself further. You haven't distinguished varying levels of violent crimes. Does this include all of them? If so, this is too extreme and smacks of a police state. Would you be so extreme with everything else?
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