Correlation between Anti-Gun v Anti Death Penalty Views

Consider the number of times you have people say that they own guns but are not responsible gun owners ... because people that don't know they are irresponsible are unable to determine that they are not responsible.How many drunks think they are safe drivers?It's always someone else eh?Enjoy.

Personally I am against the death penalty -- in practice it costs more than life in prison AND it is not a reversible process in case later evidence\review shows the person is innocent of that crime. There are too many cases of reversed decisions not to consider this as wanton murder of innocent people.The evidence also shows that it has little impact on reducing murders (especially murders of passion).Education has shown reduced recidivism, but has been defunded by GOP jealous of prisoners getting better education than they had ().But, IF I HAD to kill someone, I can think of several methods that would result in death:They all start with anesthetizing the victim into a state of unconsciousness or induced coma (and one could add happy hallucinogenics if one wanted):

1. no additional life support -- the body will dehydrate and die of starvation,
2. death by surgery -- remove organs for transplant into people that need them (heart, kidneys, livers, etc),
3. death by exsanguination -- drain the body of blood, or
4. death by freezing -- freeze until heart and lung stop (see uniform determination of death)

Off the top of my head.Enjoy ... if that is your kind of 'thing' ...

And the larger issue would be ensuring that the party was guilty rather than the possessor of wanted organs ... it would open up a slippery slope of people being found guilty in order to supply organs.Look at how our prison system has been corrupted already by for profit corporations and then consider how easy it could be to "upgrade" a prisoner to death sentence due to inappropriate behavior in prison rather than stuffing them into solitary confinement ...... I thought it was the most horrid idea. Which is why I believe lethal injections are immoral. Perhaps we should ask the executioners to find a method that they would accept being used on themselves if it was ever warrented: the golden rule eh?Enjoy

Indeed. And new medical procedures that would benefit rich old people by using materials from young poor people.Very dangerous precedent.For the record, my preference of the lot was freezing.

also see
Costs | Death Penalty Information CenterKansas
Idaho
ColoradoAll show higher cost for death penalty cases than life imprisonment cases

You mean like "militarized police" in places like Ferguson MO?Would Brown have been better off with a gun? If his friend had a gun?Would the city be more peaceful if the residents protesting the shooting were carrying assault rifles?On the other hand, if the police did not have guns would Brown have been shot?Enjoy

Sorta like Hamas? Or the residents of Palestine?Curious how oppressed people tend to behave in similar manners ... Live by the sword, die by the sword. Meanwhile more was accomplished in the Civil Rights movement by peaceful non-violent protest than by violence and guns.And it looks like the peaceful non-violent protests in Ferguson are have more of an effect than the violent outbursts in subduing the police actions and working towards justice. Looks a lot like the 60's all over again.Enjoy