Death penalty ?

[Beef Oven]

Certainly not. I'm a stickler for punctuation.

It looks 'orrible though.

[MrGongGong]

Agreed. So what shall we do?

Declare war on Iceland ?

Don't ask me mate i'm just a noisemaker

(I'm glad your rhyming slang was kept away from the Richard III thread )

[MrGongGong]

'Ang on. They don't represent parts of the country, they represent the inhabitants in the carved up country. Much of their time is spent acting for constituents individually when they have specific problems. The best are called 'good constituency MPs', not good representatives. Legislating is something different, and if they have a party label and have been voted in on that, they will be expected to observe the party whip unless it's a free vote. Not do something else that their own constituents decide they want.

I know this
but its deeply flawed as when one conflicts with another we all know who wins !

just off to clean out the duckhouse

[Beef Oven]

Declare war on Iceland ?

Don't ask me mate i'm just a noisemaker

(I'm glad your rhyming slang was kept away from the Richard III thread )

[Mr Pee]

Yes, Mr Pee? A link to some research into attitudes to capital punishment among a very small sample of UK citizens. Why do you wish to bring it to our attention?

Erm.....Isn't it obvious?

Beef oven erroneously stated that a majority of Brits are no longet in favour of the death penalty.

I provided a link to a survery that showed that statement to be balderdash.

[MrGongGong]

Erm.....Isn't it obvious?

Beef oven erroneously stated that a majority of Brits are no longet in favour of the death penalty.

I provided a link to a survery that showed that statement to be balderdash.

Which if it is true
only proves that lots of people can be incredibly stupid at the same time

I'm sure I could find a survey that "proves" that Justin Beaver is a far greater musician than Vengerov

[amateur51]

Erm.....Isn't it obvious?

Beef oven erroneously stated that a majority of Brits are no longet in favour of the death penalty.

I provided a link to a survery that showed that statement to be balderdash.

No you didn't. It's the headline that says that.

If you bother to read the text you'll find that "When given a choice between two possible punishments for a convicted murderer, half of respondents (51%) select the death penalty, while 35 per cent pick life imprisonment.". So fourteen percent did not choose either and the proportion of respondents that wanted capital punished was a modest majority (of 1% of the total).

I wonder who paid for this survey

And what's a survery?

[Beef Oven]

Erm.....Isn't it obvious?

Beef oven erroneously stated that a majority of Brits are no longet in favour of the death penalty.

I provided a link to a survery that showed that statement to be balderdash.

I didn't make a statement - I just thought it to be the case. Btw, I am in favour of the death penalty.

[amateur51]

I didn't make a statement - I just thought it to be the case. Btw, I am in favour of the death penalty.

Why's that Beefy?

[Beef Oven]

Why's that Beefy?

If you murdered my mum, I'd kill you.

Because we are civilised, the state would do it instead of me.

[amateur51]

If you murdered my mum, I'd kill you.

Because we are civilised, the state would do it instead of me.

But I thought that the presence of the death penalty was supposed to deter me from killing your mum

[Beef Oven]

But I thought that the presence of the death penalty was supposed to deter me from killing your mum

It would deter me from killing you.

[amateur51]

It would deter me from killing you.

Goodo! Doesn't address my point tho'

Look at the number of murders each year in USA and how many people there are on death row. Across the border in Canada, the death penalty was abandoned in 1976 and Statistics Canada reports that "The rate of firearm homicides per 100,000 population has generally been declining since the mid-1970s and, in 2011, reached its lowest point in almost 50 years. " There was a 7 per cent peak in 2012, put down to increased number of murders with a blade.

[Beef Oven]

Goodo! Doesn't address my point tho'

Yes it does. You kill the shits in society and protect the good guys.

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[amateur51]

Yes it does. You kill the shits in society and protect the good guys.

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Ah, straight out of the NRA's mouth