Politics: Defending a Hurting Senator

I'm not sure why everyone always jumps on people for having an opinion but when Conservative Senator Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu suggested that it would be a good idea to have a rope in the jail cells of every killer in the country to give them the option of living or not, I really don't know how you or ANYONE could take offense to that. He was well withing his right to say something like that. More-so, he made that suggestion because he is NOT in favour of capital punishment (one thing I DO disagree with him on).

If you know anything about this man, you would know that his family has had to endure the rape and murder of his teenage daughter by a serial offender, so the fact that he is STILL against capital punishment after that says something about his convictions. However, his suggestion was more with regards to killers who really have no hope of ever being anything other then a drain on society. He is basically suggesting that they do the "right thing" and kill one more person while they are at it, with that person being themselves.

Again, I don't see why people would take offense to this as. This comes on the heels of 3 murders being found guilty and already trying to maneuver their way out of jail on technicalities instead of the cold, hard truth: They killed 4 women. It was pointed out that that to house the 3 Shafia trial convicts for the duration of their sentences, it will cost the Federal Government $10 MILLION (!?!?!) at a time when everyone is being much more cost conscience.

To be blunt, if you are found guilty of murder, you don't deserve to live. We do not have capital punishment in Canada so to suggest giving them their own "out" as it were isn't nearly as bad an idea as the Liberals and NDP are trying to make it sound like (trying to lump this in with people who have had members of their families commit suicide is a real stretch and no, this is NOT the same thing but hey, apparently you always have to try to make political points). Try going through what this Senator has gone through and having the strength of conviction to still say we don't need to bring back capital punishment....I couldn't do that if I were in his place.

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1124663--give-murderers-rope-inside-their-prison-cells-tory-senator-says?bn=1