Hassan signs law requiring criminals to face their victim's families

[rejectamenta]

What a load of populist bullsh*t.

How could you guys possibly oppose this? It's not forcing the families to say anything, it's forcing the criminal to see what they have done. I am glad my step-uncles killer got to hear the victim's widow "cry bitch whine and moan" at him for a half hour.

I don't actively oppose this, it's just so utterly pointless that wasting any time on this while so many genuine social problems go unaddressed for decade seems sickening to me. Who cares if defendants get to see their victim's family or not? Is this going to prevent any single crime in the entire country? Is it going to make anyone's lives concretely better?

It's funny how the "law&order" right are so prone to complaining about the "feel-goodism" of liberals, when in fact this law is the most perfect embodiment of "feel-goodism".

Hassan is a Democrat, but you are quite right in that American conservatives and associated no-nonsense, tell-it-like-it-is folk are the most overcompensating softies on the face of this planet Earth. Witness the police or armed forces collapsing into a heap when their hero complex isn't jerked to their satisfaction.