I fully agree that these individuals must and should be held fully accountable for their malicious and senseless acts. However, punishment by design is simply meant to halt aberant behavior, not correct it. I believe a critical missing component is the imposition of some mandatory hands-on education to retrain their hearts and minds. It was the absence of a healthy moral conscience that allowed them to make the irresponsible decisions in the first place. Somehow, these individuals must be taught to respect the value of life God has placed under the hands of humanity to care for and nuture. The absence of those values means nothing is there to countermand future antisocial impulses, and it is highly likely they will become repeat offenders. Sorry for my rambling, but those are my thoughts for what they are worth.
Ron Green http://www.greensphotoimages.com/gallery ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Johnson" <[email protected]> To: "Alt, Mark" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 7:14 PM Subject: Re: [mnbird] FW: 4 charged with killing owls > Hello, > > I believe the only person who lost his hunting > privileges for two years was the guy who shot 8 owls. > All the others only got the fine. > > I hardly feel that justice was served. Is it great > that they were caught and fined, definitely. Was it > enough, in my opinion, NO. I would like to see > hunting privileges suspended for all people caught > shooting protected animals and birds and in the case > of the guy who shot 8, I would have liked 15 days in > jail, lifetime suspension of hunting privileges and > the fine. > > My two cents, > > Michael Johnson > Saint Paul > > > > __________________________________ > Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 > http://mail.yahoo.com
