If law-breakers have the same legal rights as the law-abiding, then it’s just as much the case that law-breakers are as responsible for the outcome of their actions as anyone else.
As a kid I was a baseball nut. I read a book by retired baseball umpire Ron Luciano. When he didn’t know the rule in an unusual situation, his rule of thumb was to rule against the team that caused the situation. In other words, if your second baseman dropped a catch or your runner missed a base, you lost the benefit of the doubt.
In these ambiguous cases, the right gives the law-abiding the benefit of the doubt, whereas the left and increasingly the justice system gives the criminal the benefit of the doubt.
Why? 1. Criminals are often minorities of some sort. 2. The justice system seems to indulge its usual suspects, such as career criminals, but goes after civilians who come into its grip. 3. Leftists are often over educated white collar types who lack basic sympathy for working men who clumsily intervene against crime.
I also think that the left has lost any respect for property rights. Property is seen as something arbitrary that happens to come into your possession for a while and the state may reassign at will. So there is no sympathy for someone whose property rights come under attack, since those rights are not meaningful in the first place.
As a kid I was a baseball nut. I read a book by retired baseball umpire Ron Luciano. When he didn’t know the rule in an unusual situation, his rule of thumb was to rule against the team that caused the situation. In other words, if your second baseman dropped a catch or your runner missed a base, you lost the benefit of the doubt.
In these ambiguous cases, the right gives the law-abiding the benefit of the doubt, whereas the left and increasingly the justice system gives the criminal the benefit of the doubt.
Why? 1. Criminals are often minorities of some sort. 2. The justice system seems to indulge its usual suspects, such as career criminals, but goes after civilians who come into its grip. 3. Leftists are often over educated white collar types who lack basic sympathy for working men who clumsily intervene against crime.
I also think that the left has lost any respect for property rights. Property is seen as something arbitrary that happens to come into your possession for a while and the state may reassign at will. So there is no sympathy for someone whose property rights come under attack, since those rights are not meaningful in the first place.