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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We need 20-30 year mandatory minimum sentences for any car theft. Period. [/quote]

The Supreme Court would disagree with you! Moreover, that is cruel & unusual punishment. We need more social services and campaign push for helping fathers parent. Many of the kids stealing probably don't have fathers in the home because the fathers are away in jail. More jail will not resolve the issue. [/quote]

I think you, respectfully, need to step back from your privileged position and take a look at how the crime impacts those with less resources then you if you think 20-30 years in prison is a ‘cruel and unusual’ punishment for stealing a car.

Imagine you are a poor single mother. Let’s say one day some kid steals the car you worked hard to afford. You now have no transportation, you cannot get to work, so you lose your job. You cannot fet your kids to school, so they get in trouble for absenteeism and ultimately expelled, and you can’t get to the grocery store, so you are forced to feed your kids what is available at the corner store, which leads to them getting obese and having to deal with the medical complications of that.

I hope you can see that stealing the car didn’t just steal this single mother’s physical item, but it was stealing her sole mode of transportation and he dignity. Sure, when your car is stolen, maybe you have the privilege to just laugh on the drive over to the Maserati dealership about how you wanted to buy a new car anyway, but for the vast majority of people, losing their car is a serious, often unrecoverable disaster.

So, tell me how 20-30 years in prison is ‘cruel and unusual’ punishment in this case? How is such a violent and evil crime not worth a punishment that matches its severity, and how do we tell the victims that such evil only justifies a slap on the wrist?[/quote]

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