It is rational since the 60s crime has soared and liberals want to punish the lawabiding citizens and not the criminals...
They'd rather send the Aurora shooter to a mental hospital and not death.
i'm glad the guy in CT killed himself, because liberals would defend him to the last and even try to get him out on parole...Can you imagine a parole hearing where those parents would have to show up every year....that's way more cruel and unusual than disembowling the shooter.
Had Lanza lived, he'd have ended up spending the rest of his life in a mental institution.
Kind of like Hinkley... 30 years since he shot Reagan, he's still in a mental hospital.
But you bring up an interesting point. If gun ownership and harshly punishing criminals was supposed to bring down the crime rate, then why has the crime rate "soared", as you say.
We lock up over 2 million Americans. Germany locks up 78,000. Japan locks up 69,000.
We have lots of guns. The Germans have very few, the Japanese have none.
The US had 15,953 murders, 11,101 of them committed with guns. (2012 figures)
Germany had 690 murders, 158 of them committed with guns (2010 figures, the latest the sight had.)
Japan had 582 murders, 11 of them committed with guns.
Hmmmmmm.....
So if guns and prisons make us safer, why aren't we safer?