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... What do you mean?
Are you saying that the corporate / political pedophiles ... don't functionally deserve the death penalty?
Or are you saying because I, myself, a currently crippled person, who doesn't own (and can't afford) a firearm... sn't volunteering myself as a viable triggerman, that makes me a hypocrite?
I lack the means and the opportunity.
There are tens of millions of gunowners in this country, I am commenting on how ludicrous it is that in this highly armed society full of people drastically more capable and better equipped to do take the shot, nobody has yet.
Instead, we get a mass casualty incident at a school every week, or at a church, or some other public area.
It is ridiculous to me that in a country full of suicidal mass shooters, none of them pick worthwhile targets.
I wouldn't mourn them but I don't believe an ethical criminal justice system executes its own people, no. I also don't believe any criminal justice system performs executions via a gunshot to the face so lets not pretend that's what you were talking about.
Guns are surprisingly cheap. And considering that if you decided to be an assassin your life would be effectively (or perhaps literally) over, it's not like you would need your other possessions anymore. If you were serious you'd sell them. You're not. You're waxing rhetoric about how someone, anyone, who isn't you should do this for you.
Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying.
2 people have tried to assassinate Trump. They failed, and it's doubtful if the one who survived will ever be released from prison. That alone is a pretty compelling reason why nobody else wants to try.
Those people are mentally ill. They don't want to change the world, they want to get a high score.
Ok so you've clearly got 0 experience with firearms if you think someone who needs a wheelchair on a bad day, and crutches or a cane on a good day...
... is of comparable fitness and capability to wield a firearm, you know, with the intent to surivive the encounter, as an able bodied person.
Uh lets see here, specifics;
Ok I also don't believe in a codified death penalty.
But I believe its the only solution for the people who the system will never touch, because they are its prime operators.
A well done firing squad execution is probably actually more humane than death by lethal injection or gas chamber, guess you don't know much about how that actually works either.
Your blathering about me being of disingenuous motivation is completely pointless... I am crippled. No amount of me selling things would make me capable of the task.
It is infact possible to survive and even escape an assasination. Luigi survived his. Others in the past have escaped totally.
You seem to just think it is impossible to do this. Extremely difficult? Yes. Impossible? No.
I own several guns and there's guys in wheelchairs at the range that shoot better than I do. Convenient excuse, though.
I know they aim for center mass and not the face. I apparently know more about it than you do.
Then why bring up your finances in the first place?
And he's probably going to spend the rest of his life in prison. Sounds awesome, who doesn't want that for themselves?
If you call being hunted forever "escaping"
I don't think it's impossible. I think you asked why somebody doesn't do it and I gave you a myriad of reasons why they don't.