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Crazy question. How do people feel about the death penalty especially in the context of these school shootings?

Oppose…doesn’t seem like it’d be a deterrent and the crime is already highly morally condemned and needs no emphasis.

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I've always wondered: from an ethical standpoint, who has the right to decide whether or not a person's life should end? It's astonishing to think that some individuals can claim to have the authority to judge the life or death of another person, isn't it?

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It is.

The shooter has decided they have the right/authority/justification to end their victims' lives.

Two wrongs don't necessarily make a right, but really nothing can make a mass shooting right. My opinion is we have to look at what we as a society can do to reduce future risk of violence and death, and unfortunately we also have to consider societal resources in reducing that future risk efficiently.