Raiders threaten to shoot 10 month old baby!

anncoates wrote: »

Your tone reminds me of another poster.;)

PC Brigade is the kind of thing people that love these threads would say.

I mean what's the point of them? It's an awful thing to happen to the kid but its just about 100 pages of people saying the same thing.

And yes I know I don't have to read it etc.

Your compassion fills my heart with warmth.

thebaz wrote: »

horrible - the Guards will no doubt catch them , BUT my worry is will the judiciary be strong eneogh to sentence them accordingly - everyone deserves a fair trial , but sometimes , I think we have gone too far in being fair.

The justice system in this country is a shambles. Judges are far too lenient on repeat offenders and Gardai are fed up and frustrated by the revolving door. These ****ers who terrorised this family didnt turn into animals overnight. They probably have years of criminal activity behind them.
Free legal aid is another cause for all this criminals being allowed to walk free sometimes without even being charged. I have no doubt from my own experience of being burgled that money and budgets are influencing the DPP when it comes to deciding whether to prosecute or not. FLA should be paid back to the state from dole payments for however long it takes. It's also a shame that there's so many spineless solicitors in this country who take these cases. In my mind they are every bit as bad as the scum who commit the crime. They might as well be part of the gangs as they are aiding and abetting these criminals and using the system to line their own pockets with essentially dirty money. A solicitor with a conscience is as rare as a hen with teeth.
I'd also like to see the "three strikes" rule brought in. Hard labour would also be a deterrent and I can't wait to see the super prison built although judges will pick on easy targets like tv licence and car tax to justify their existence and undeserved high salaries.

Dont care what anyone else might think but trash like that threatening to shoot a 10 month old baby with a shotgun arent human anymore, theyre rabid animals and they should be put down for good without mercy like the animialistic scum that they are.

thebaz wrote: »

horrible - the Guards will no doubt catch them , BUT my worry is will the judiciary be strong eneogh to sentence them accordingly

It must be so disheartening for Gardai when absurdly lenient sentences are passed down. Look at how often you hear about guys with 80+ convictions being locked up after committing a particularly nasty crime.

How many of their man-hours must 80 successful convictions equate to.. only for the scrotes to be afforded leniency and understanding?

It pisses me off big time.. and I'm not saying that we should follow the mental & paranoid American '3 strikes' system, but a bit of common sense from our judiciary would be nice, though that would require common sense from politicians and the public too.. so not likely to ever happen.

Infini2 wrote: »

Dont care what anyone else might think but trash like that threatening to shoot a 10 month old baby with a shotgun arent human anymore, theyre rabid animals and they should be put down for good without mercy like the animialistic scum that they are.

Devils advocate here, but does anyone actually believe that the guy had any intention of pulling the trigger? Because as nasty as pointing a toy guy, or even a real gun, at a baby is, it's nothing compared to actually killing a baby.

Assuming the safety was on, there's no difference between pointing a real gun and pointing a toy guy if there is absolutely no intention of pulling the trigger.

It's fcuking horrible beyond words for the parents. I can't even imagine what they're going through and it will probably take years to get over. But no-one was killed.

Although we have no way of knowing for certain, there's a HUGE difference between pointing a gun at a Baby and killing a baby so we can't assume one way or the other. Although this bit from the story implies that they were very violent but not killers since they did not follow through on threats "They told me to get down on my hands and knees and that they were going to blow my head off. One of them counted to three and then pulled me into the hallway and started beating me again."

I say lock em up for the maximum sentence for armed robbery and assault breaking and entry and whatever else they can be nicked for. That'll probably keep them away for a few decades.