Should one-punch killers get life in jail?

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Should one-punch killers get life in jail?

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Re: Should one-punch killers get life in jail?

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It's a totally different matter when two blokes 'square off', in that, there is an awareness by BOTH parties that there is a prospect of injury/death as a result
Don't agree, blokes feel obliged to fight lest they look weak or whatever, so they fight. Should be that if you punch someone regardless, and they die, then off you go for life, unless it was self defence. Put the blame squarely on the aggressors.

Only choice in an argument should be yelling at each other.

Or water pistols. Or a fishing competition ... :D

The drunk defence s...ts me, if you choose to get drunk then you are responsible for your situation, why is choosing to be drunk any different from choosing to do some other act?


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Any different than those people who choose to drink drive and kill someone?
They generally do very little time.
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Mud wrote:If you punch someone and they don't know you are going to do it...or they have not agreed to a fight......YOU ARE A COWARD.

People die or are brain damaged for life ALL THE TIME from this sort of sh*t. Seriously. We just never hear about it.

What needs to change more than anything is the culture that says its OK to just punch someone because you didn't like what they said or did. Its not okay. THE HELL ITS OKAY!

And if you think those Queensland sentences are harsh well ask an 18 year old kid who cant walk, speak, feed himself, cr.p, play, get married, have children,.....ask him what he thinks of a sentence like that. A walk in the park he would say if he could. Swap you any day.

"I was drunk". No. You were a cowardly piece of scum. Stop making us sick by having to listen to your pathetic excuses.

The sooner we as a community decide that we refuse to tolerate the myth that punching and seriously injuring someone who isn't expecting it and doesn't want to fight is somehow cool.....the sooner we get rid of moronic scum cowards who disable or kill our sons and daughters.



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Nicely said Mud

My comments are my own and reflect my personal experience on the matter, and the rest of the family as well.
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If you kill you should get life in prison & length of rope..!

Fooking sick of BS sentences!!!
Only reason we have so much trouble in this country is there no deterrents.
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http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/ ... 695353.htm
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/onepunch-deat ... 34bj2.html
http://wavesmag.com.au/features/2010/10 ... olangatta/
http://www.mydailynews.com.au/news/anot ... ta/433943/
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/surf ... 5888676647

You want a life sentence, 20 years is not a life sentence, compared to what these family's are going through. This is one town, and there are heaps more examples I could of used for that area.
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Hemi wrote:If you kill you should get life in prison & length of rope..!

Fooking sick of BS sentences!!!
Only reason we have so much trouble in this country is there no deterrents.
So some grub kidnaps your 4yo son, does unspeakable things to him, gets 7 years, is out after serving 4 years, because he did a course in prison, and became a christian, and promised the parole board he would try and stay away from schools etc, you see him crossing the road, whilst driving your V8 cruiser, and think, stuff it, and run him down.
You think in those circustances, you should get life, and a length of rope?

its not as easy as that is it?
Everyone is capable of murder, the sentance must take in account of the circumstances, some idiot king hits a punter with a coward punch, and the victim dies, then I say a long long sentence, but 2 blokes having a punch up, both swinging, is different imo.
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Re: Should one-punch killers get life in jail?

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Mud wrote:If you punch someone and they don't know you are going to do it...or they have not agreed to a fight......YOU ARE A COWARD.

People die or are brain damaged for life ALL THE TIME from this sort of sh*t. Seriously. We just never hear about it.

What needs to change more than anything is the culture that says its OK to just punch someone because you didn't like what they said or did. Its not okay. THE HELL ITS OKAY!

And if you think those Queensland sentences are harsh well ask an 18 year old kid who cant walk, speak, feed himself, cr.p, play, get married, have children,.....ask him what he thinks of a sentence like that. A walk in the park he would say if he could. Swap you any day.

"I was drunk". No. You were a cowardly piece of scum. Stop making us sick by having to listen to your pathetic excuses.

The sooner we as a community decide that we refuse to tolerate the myth that punching and seriously injuring someone who isn't expecting it and doesn't want to fight is somehow cool.....the sooner we get rid of moronic scum cowards who disable or kill our sons and daughters.



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what Mud said X2. They are scum.

sadly , sending the scum to jail for 10-15-20yrs will only turn them into more highly qualified scum.

maybe castration , so they cannot EVER breed , may go some way to act as a deterrent?

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I'm all for capital punishment. An eye for an eye - life for a life... :evil:
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You are right on the money mud, I am with you
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