• Beej Jorgensen
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    17 days ago

    To quote a friend of mine, “People who support the death penalty trust the government far more than I do.”

    But I don’t think he’s entirely right. Many people who support the death penalty simply do not care if occasionally some innocent person gets killed and the actual murderer runs free. They feel it’s a net gain overall so it’s worth it.

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      17 days ago

      I volunteer anyone with that opinion to be the next person executed. And anytime who thinks people dying from unnecessary gun violence is an acceptable loss to keep the 2nd Amendment can be next in line after Charlie Kirk.

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      16 days ago

      A mentality kinda like “It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deathswrongful executions every single year so that we can have the Second Amendmentsome dead murderers”