Well, it is tragic the role that Lane County Circuit Judge Maurice Merten played in the death of John Mills.  He knew Orlando Centano's history of violent confrontations.   Yet, he only gave him 10 days in jail, and 2 years of probation.

Worst of all, is that he allowed him to keep his guns.   Judge Merten could have easily taken Centano's guns away during his probationary period of 2 years.   Centano would then have never had a gun this week, and this shooting would have never happened.

Judge Merten is incompetent as a judge, as far as I am concerned, for allowing Centano to keep his guns.  The government needs to start seizing the guns of people who show violent tendencies like Centano clearly did.  And Judge Merten could have easily done that,

We really need to have Judge Maurice Merten recalled and removed from office.  He is so very old.  He has been a judge since 1975!!   His thinking is clearly impaired.

Perhaps we need to pass a new mandatory retirement age for judges too.

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