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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Gets Death Penalty In Boston Marathon Bombing
mpicpp writes with a link to the New York Times's version of story that a Boston jury earlier today returned a verdict of death in the Boston Marathon bombing. From that report: A federal jury on Friday condemned Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a failed college student, to death for setting off bombs at the 2013 Boston Marathon that killed three people and injured hundreds more in the worst terrorist attack on American soil since Sept. 11, 2001. The jury of seven women and five men, which last month convicted Mr. Tsarnaev, 21, of all 30 charges against him, 17 of which carry the death penalty, took more than 14 hours to reach its decision. It was the first time a federal jury had sentenced a terrorist to death in the post-Sept. 11 era, according to Kevin McNally, director of the Federal Death Penalty Resource Counsel Project, which coordinates the defense in capital punishment cases.
How dare you! He is a member of the religion of peace!
The Tsarnaev exemplifies how FUCKED UP the American government has become
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/29/tsarnaev-trial-tamerlan-testimony_n_7173250.html
The Russian intelligence agency, - the FSB, - had given the American government the dossier of the Tsarnaevs, prior to the Boston Marathon bombing
Along with the dossier, which includes an interview with a distant cousin living in Dagestan, another region in Russian, who said that Tamerlan had visited and sought an introduction to Islamic fighters, the Russian FSB had warned the Americans that the Tsarnaev are ticking time bombs
But what the American government did? Nothing!
That's right, not . a . mother - fucking . thing
According to the FBI, which is being led by a bunch of moslem loving liberals, "the FBI investigated Tamerlan in 2011 for terrorist connections, but found he had none"
Yep, the FBI "FOUND NO CONNECTION" even after the Russians had given them the dossier and the interview --- and what we got after that?
THE . BOSTON . MARATHON . BOMBING
That is how fucked up the government of the United States of America has become --- and we should thank the Liberals for such a _marvelous_ performance !
That statement is vague and potentially backwards. The victim or potential victim having a gun is proven to be a very good deterrent of murder.
I don't think that's been proven anywhere, unless you define "proof" as "It seems true to me."
We don't have much proof of anything about guns. The NRA lobbied Congress to eliminate all research on gun violence from the federal budget. The NRA also lobbied states and the federal government to prohibit releasing or even collecting most data about gun ownership. So we haven't had any scientifically solid gun research in about 15 years.
What ticked the NRA off was a study based on gun purchase records which found that people who bought guns were more likely to use them for suicide than self-defense.
Doctors have told me (and there are published studies to back them up) that people who are assaulted with guns are much more likely to die than people assaulted by any other means.
So eliminating guns from the scene is a very good deterrent of murder.