Nevada GOPer: ‘Straight-Up Castration’ Of Pimps Would End Sex Trafficking

Nevada Assemblywoman Michelle Fiore, R-Las Vegas, works in committee during the final day of the 77th Legislative session at the Legislative Building in Carson City, Nev., on Monday, June 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Cathleen Allison)
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A Nevada assemblywoman proposed “chemical castration or straight-up castration” of “pimps” as a solution for sex trafficking, the Reno Gazette-Journal reported on Tuesday.

Assemblywoman Michele Fiore (R) appeared on the local television program “Nevada Newsmakers” on Monday and discussed her solution to sex trafficking, a major issue in Las Vegas, and Nevada in general, according to the Gazette-Journal.

During her conversation with host Sam Shad, Fiore discussed her solution, which she’d originally proposed during a recent committee meeting.

“I said that if, if you really want to get serious about stopping the pimps and stopping this horrific activity with sex trafficking our children, come to us, legislators, with a bill for chemical castration or straight-up castration,” Fiore said.

“As I said to you, just prior to this sentence, I am sensible about having prisons without bars, people on parole or probation in their homes,” Fiore continued. “However, when we have these heinous crimes of rape and murder and sex trafficking children, I have zero tolerance for it and I think the solution would be castration.”

Fiore pointed out to the show’s male host that this penalty would resonate with men because it would cost them “their most valued possession.”

“I mean you think of — you’re a man — I really seriously think that would take a big effect, when these pimps understand that it’s going to cost them their, their most valued possession.”

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  1. I am by no means a legal expert, but I would have expected that the party that claims “defenders of the Constitution” status would be aware of what it says about “cruel and unusual punishment”.

  2. Ummmm…

    It wouldn’t.

    And I’ll tell ya, I’m getting sick of seeing that picture of this ugly cow and tired of hearing the stupid shit that flows from her mouth like it’s a damned sewer.

  3. Straight up lobotomies would stop bad legislation.
    Maybe.

  4. Seems reasonable.

    But maybe that’s just because it’s coming from a high-class dreamboat deep thinking sociopathologist. And to think they said there’d be no more Ghandis or MLKs!

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