His was a nice try, but no cigar.

My post was in response to that part of Babe's post about making the family of crime victims feel better. Statutory law and the criminal justice process are not designed for such a purpose. They are designed to give us a feeling of reasonable security in our Nationa and in our states, our cities, our neighborhods, and in our homes. Without such a feeling, we would probably be too scared to leave our homes and you can imagine the ill effects that would engender.

While we may sympathize with the plight of those surviving family members of a crime victim, our law and legal processes have to remain as objective as possible.