Benedit v. State

FERGUSON, Judge.

This case graphically presents a deadly phenomenon now endemic in our social fabric. In a mindless moment of “machismo”, one young man, for reason of a petty grievance, looks for and finds a handgun which he uses to snuff out the life of an acquaintance.

The blame for these recurring incidents has been laid, in great part, on an easy availability of efficient weapons of destruc*237tion and an entertainment media which, in glorifying such violence, cheapens the value of human life. Nevertheless, the problem is tossed into the lap of an ill-equipped criminal justice system for a…