Mass shooting on campus in Oregon

Re:murder, I also feel like crimes with long sentences likely have low recidivism rates, simply because you age out of your prim crime-committing years.

 

A) I can't say it for a fact, but I think it's a reasonable inference that some percentage of people who care about gun ownership would not willingly put themselves in a position in which they would have to surrender up said ownership.

2) The unintended consequence isn't that they would become rampage killers. The unintended consequence is that mentally ill people would not receive the treatment they need, thereby decreasing their qualify of life.

 

Good point.

 

I have a client that we are very close to getting out of a life sentence. His prison rap sheet for an earlier sentence is a page long. His rap sheet during this sentence, 10 years and counting, has one mark - "talking back," eight years ago. He's 57.

I can't say there's a direct correlation between behavior inside and behavior outside, but I'd say that is some evidence there that he's a different person than the guy who served the earlier sentence and committed the crime that earned him a life sentence.

 

BJS recidivism rates table:


FWIW, I think this table shows a re-arrest for anything, not necessarily for the same crime. (Ex. a murder arrested later for assult shows up in the murder column here).

A different table of what crime they were re-arrested for:


This one sort of crosswalks the two previous charts together, but frustratingly doesn't break down violent into subgroups:

 

Once you're 40+ you're less likely to be re-arrested than all other age groups.


PS, hope these copy/pasted tables are showing up for you guys.

 

They do, thanks.

 

Ben Carson wouldn't have just stood there and took it like those candy asses at UCC.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slat...tand_there_in_oregon_style_mass_shooting.html

 

He separated twins co-joined at the head.

You don't think he could separate a lone nut from his arsenal of weapons?

 

As long as he had the help of anesthesia again!

 

Were the twins sprayin bullets from an AR?

 

Ben is a terrific guy, but he has low energy.