How about 3rd and 4th and 5th chances?

I think I've posted before about Scott Walker. He's the poster child against mandatory sentencing. He received a life without parole sentence on drug charges. Unfair! He says everybody deserves a second chance. I don't agree with that (think Charlie Manson, Ted Bundy, the BTK killer and on and on). But for the sake of argument, I'll grant him that everybody deserves a second chance. Now let's take a little look-see at Scott's record.

He started using marijuana at age 14. That's chance number 1, and he chose wrong. Just as an aside, those who advocate legalizing marijuana deny it is a gateway drug. But Scott says he "graduated" to meth. That's chance number 2, and he made the wrong choice again. By his late teens, he was trafficking marijuana, meth and LSD. That's chance number 3, and Scott still hasn't learned to make good choices. He enlisted others to sell drugs for him. That's chance number 4, and he's dragging others down with him. When he was finally caught in 1996, he wouldn't cooperate with police, because he didn't "want his friends to suffer." That's chance number 5. He refused pleas deals he was offered -- that's chance number 6.

Sorry, Scott. Looks like you had a second and a third and a fourth and a fifth and a sixth chance, and you chose wrong every time. It's hypocritical for you to be whining now about second chances.

"'Everyone deserves a second chance.'" The Dallas Morning News; July 27, 2014; p. 25A.