Minneapolis, Charlotte, Orem—Massacres That Concern All of Us
18th September 2025
Today, we are overwhelmed—and even desensitized—by illogical and nauseating rhetoric about equality at all costs, which fuels a practice whereby criminals are protected while law-abiding citizens are crushed. Simple common sense should suffice to see that the modern penal system in the West is profoundly unjust. It is not justice to sentence someone to decades in prison, because it means forcing citizens—including the victims’ own families—to pay for the criminal’s upkeep with public funds collected through taxation.
The West must relearn that the role of the judiciary is not to redeem the wicked, but to deliver justice to the victims and restore the order disrupted by crime. The purpose of punishment is expiation proportionate to guilt.
When guilt is extreme and undeniable—as in the gratuitous and brutal murder in Charlotte—no form of expiation is adequate except capital punishment. In this, Donald Trump is right. Those who reject this principle are not merciful; they are simply unjust, because they deny victims and their loved ones the recognition of their suffering and deprive society of a necessary barrier against the advance of barbarism.