Nobody should be punished for any crime because they are not responsible for causing it. Those who choose to smoke are not responsible if they get cancer. The companies who manufacture the smokes are responsible. For if they did not produce them, no one would smoke and get cancer.
Those who choose to drive drunk are not responsible if they have an accident or kill someone. Those who manufacture the alcohol are responsible.
Those who are addicted to other drugs are not responsible for their actions, since they probably had an improper upbringing.
Those who shoot and maim or kill others are not responsible, since those who manufacture the firearms are responsible.
Actually, no human being is responsible for crime except God. If God had not made man, man would not be smoking, driving drunk, using other drugs and killing people.
So, man is not responsible for his actions, yet all of us pay the price for man’s misdeeds.
KENT HARRELL
Everett
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