The doors to many caves are thrown open, and now we’re bombarded with a thousand and one “I told you so”s by Neanderthals in heat, the sickly smell of blood-lust bursting from their fetid mouths. It reminds me of the weeks and months following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center: Now that terror has struck, we are all experts on how to prevent what just happened. It’s silly.
The Cheshire killings have lawmakers, lawyers, judges and pundits up in arms. Everyone has perfect 20-20 hindsight. Long mandatory sentences for burglars are necessary, we are told. Why? Because the killers were burglars and petty thieves in the years before they turned to rape and murder.
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