THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

FOOTNOTE ON CRIME AND PUNISHMENT | 2001-05-05

All New York liberals oppose minimum mandatory sentences for all crimes BUT ONE. They say that rapists and drug dealers should not be subjected to minimum sentencing

But anyone caught with a gun in his home in New York -- for the first offense -- gets a one year minimum prison sentence.

When liberals are serious about something, the first thing they do is dump the liberal approach to it.