by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 1, 2015 | Crime
If a man commit murder, let him be punished as a murderer, and let no regard be paid to his plea of conscience for committing the action; but let not the opinions, which led to the action be meddled with. —Joseph Priestley. Essay on the First Principles of Government,...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Nov 30, 2015 | Crime
Criminalization of drugs Drugs stunt young lives, break up families, injure babies before they are even born. There are those in Britain who say we should legalize certain drugs. As though burglary could be defeated by legalizing theft. How typical of the muddled...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Nov 30, 2015 | Crime
Most people who commit murder, rape, or other heinous crimes are of low intellect. They have often been misled, by exposure to other criminals, movies, or violent video games, into believing there is nothing particularly wrong with heinous crime—in fact, some...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Nov 30, 2015 | Crime
I have honestly been getting my act together, because I truly want to be that loving husband to my wife and that good father/role model to my children. I swear to you that I WILL NOT let you down. Let my wife or children down. Let my family down. Let society down....
by Matthew Bransgrove | Oct 15, 2015 | Crime
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity; in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Oct 15, 2015 | Crime
If prisons are simply places for criminals to wait out their sentence, if prisoners are allowed to behave like thugs, or are treated like animals, they will come out worse than when they went in. The purpose of prison is to punish and reform. To be reformed, they must...
