On February 13, 43-year-old Anthony Dwayne McRae walked into two buildings on the campus of Michigan State University and opened fire with a handgun. But if not for liberal policies that extoll the rights of criminals it may have never happened.
McRae shot and killed three students and five others were critically wounded.
Police say he had no known ties to the victims or the university, police later found him dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The truth is, McRae should never been able to buy gun in the first place. According to a Fox News report. He was arrested in 2019 for carrying a concealed weapon without a license. Ingham County later dropped those charges in exchange for McRae’s guilty plea of possessing a firearm in a vehicle.
If he had been charged and convicted of the felony gun charge he could have spent up to five years in prison. Even if he had served only a couple years of that sentence he would not have been able to legally have a gun until three years after serving his time and paying his fines.
Would that have stopped him, maybe not. It would, however, have been a step in the right direction.
Instead of at least trying to keep a criminal off the street and trying to keep a gun out of his hands, he was simply set free and given probation with no firearms restrictions.
In some instances, we’re even letting criminals tell us how to punish them. A group called Prison Fellowship International now pushes the concept of restorative justice and sometimes the crime victims or their families are on board.
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For example, in Oakland, Calf. just last week a popular baker named Jen Angel was robbed in a parking lot. When she pursued her attackers, her clothing got hung up in a car door and she was dragged 50 feet. She died after a week in the ICU.
So far no arrests have been made but if and when they are, Angel’s friends and family said they know she would not have wanted her perpetrators to be severely punished.
“We are really trying to orient towards her brilliant life, and that actually, she is not a person who would support the policing and imprisonment of the people who harmed her,” Angel’s friend Emily Harris told a local television station.
According to that report, those who knew Angel best said she believed that crime was often the result of poverty and racism.
Instead of a harsh sentence, Angel’s loved ones said they are focusing on restorative justice, an ideology that she embraced.
The concept of restorative justice preaches that criminal and victim should work together to fix the problems that led to the crime in first place.
Restorative justice theory postulates that justice is accomplished by meetings between crime victims and the people that harmed them and allowing the guilty to make amends.
‘This can lead to the transformation of people, relationships, and communities,” the Restorative Justice Exchange website states.
The theory focuses more on rehabilitation than punishment and claims the criminal justice system is broken and that is what leads to crime. It claims pre-trial detention is too long and inhumane.
But in reality it’s just another way of taking accountability away from the individual and blaming their actions on society or a broken criminal justice system or, of course, racism.
Personal responsibility is the final answer
Gandhi said, ”It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one’s acts.”
Unfortunately, our society is leaning more and more in that direction and thatincludes our criminal justice system. That means our society is growing less and less safe every day.
With liberal policies like no cash bail, criminals are often back on the street within days or even hours of being arrested.
Left wing district attorneys from New York to Los Angeles simply refuse to enforce the law. When they have no choice they demand no cash bail and leave off enhancements —such as gang affiliation or using a weapon while committing a crime — that would lead to longer prison time if the accused is found guilty.
These DAs and presiding judges rarely have to account for their actions, instead they decry the justice system as unfair to minorities, but never explain what skin color has to do with whether a person uses a gun during the commission of a crime.
The left says this is fair and is a necessary component of equity. But equity for whom? Is it equitable for the crime victim or is it just another excuse to put more criminals back on our streets in the interest of virtue signaling?
Eventually, there will be a reckoning and the idiocy of these policies will be laid bare. Let’s just hope civilized society can hold on that long,
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