"In 1993, a man named James Scott purposely damaged a levee and caused a massive flood of the Mississippi River..

[Hekate]

18. Arsonists really don't "reform." We kind of have a concern about that here in the dry, dry West.

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So anyway, having read some of his backstory via this thread, I will join the others who say he needs to be kept out of society for his various antisocial and highly dangerous misdeeds.

And that’s my philosophy.

Edited to add:

Arson is a helluva violent crime. People who get trapped in a building that’s been set alight die of the smoke as well as the flames. In Los Angeles a few years back some gang member was told to burn down the apartment building where a rival lived. Eight little children and their mothers died.

Every wildfire out here kills people who desperately try to outrun the flames. That’s on top of all the wildlife that die gruesomely. Not every wildfire is set by a human, but we all know there are firebugs out there, and one year the state fire authorities tracked a guy along a freeway route throughout the fire season, setting one fire after another in the forests. I don’t know if they ever caught up with him, or if he’s still out there biding his time.