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Should Teens Be Tried As Adults MAG
Should teenagers be tried as adults? Opinions differ. Some people argue that teenagers don't know what they are doing when they commit a crime and are still too young to comprehend what is right and wrong. I totally disagree. I am old enough to know that committing a crime is wrong and that if I commit one, I will be punished. Anyone who says teens can't tell right from wrong is either too old to remember what being a teenager is like or they are a teenager who has committed a crime and don't want to be tried as an adult. In either case, they are wrong. All teens know that killing is wrong, yet they do it anyway and get away with a light sentence because of their age. Even if a teen didn't know it was wrong, it doesn't mean it's right. They should still be punished. If they aren't, they willthink that crimes are okay and continue to commit them.
Teens today don't fear the law because they don't think they will get caught. And if they do, they know they have a good chance of getting off because they are tried as teens and not adults. We have to get tougher on crime. There should be a law that everyone over eleven years old will be tried as adults. That way more teens would be discouraged from committing crimes. They would know that murder would get them a very long sentence instead of staying in juvenile hall until they are eighteen. If we want to cut down on teen crime, we have to have tougher laws. ?
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I don't think teens should be tried as adults because if you have other websites saying " That teens who get tried as adults either gets raped, abused, or commit suicide" so no teens should not have to go through that at all, even if their wrong for commit a crime!... So im truly against that because Im truly sure if the person who wrote this went through what teens have to go through now got treated the exact same way that teens now are being treated being tried as adult.
your arguement makes no sense. and learn how to spell correctly, its schizophrenia. how can you blame some one for being mental, and say they should be punished because someone else gave them the weapon? just because you're frustrated, furious, grieving and hopeless for your loss does not give you, or any other blockhead the right to take out your anger on the person who you believe is responsible for the said crime. your pathos based arguement isn't going to sway my views. you're angry at the 'murder' and tell yourself he isn't crazy because you want to believe that this wasn't an accident so you can wallop in self pity. well thats at least my guess of whats happened since you can't even spell schizophrenia right, indicating your ignorance on mental illnesses. but let me say this: if he was pretending, then fuck that shit head. from what i've said i'd understand you to judge me as a un-emotional detached person. well, thats far from the truth; i know agony. I know whats its like to lose someone, even when they aren't dead. I don't like being separted from people that i met at band camp. but yeah, my great grandma died, so did my grandpa, other one i didn't know. maybe i'll put up my personal essay, so you can read that i am sensitive. anyways have a nice day.
