>This is one of those areas where my political predilection to being a strict interpreter of the Constitution and being a father clash. I agree with the idea that you can't execute a felon when the victim doesn't die (reluctantly)...but if it was my daughter.....
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>Glenn Beck had an insightful take on this tonight - he said that he was happy with today's gun ruling so that if anyone broke into his house and raped his daughter he would have the gun at hand to shoot the bastard dead.

Of course the house isn't really his as it can be siezed and given to another private party thanks to Kelo. :)

>>(Hey, that could be the title for my autobiography)
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>>Supreme Court has ruled that the death penalty is just too cruel and unusual for those who rape children. ( I believe there is some thought of rehabilitating them and making them productive members of the community again )
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>>Well, despite the carping of those nasty old conservative dissenters who just want to kill everybody and are stupid like Bush and evil like Cheney, I think the court did not go far enough. I believe child-rapists should not be imprisoned at all but rather released into the community ... where they could be hunted for sport.
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>>Kudos to Obama. After proper caveats about provisions and safeguards and limits (so as not to give his base the vapors) he sided with the conservative justices on this one. He ain't stupid and and he ain't Dukakis. That bodes well for his future.