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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:
A few important points for Mr. Reply Police here:
⁃ If you read the whole article, you’ll learn that several of the people given half-century-plus sentences were unconnected to the ones who brought guns, but lumped in with them by prosecutors and given equally harsh sentences.
- Possessing a bunch of firearms is not a crime in the US. It probably •should• be in many cases IMO, but it’s not, and fans of the 2nd Amendment will remind you.
⁃ A 100-year sentence is wildly excessive for shooting someone in the shoulder. It would be a pretty striking sentence even for murder (cf Kyle Rittenhouse) — and in this case, nobody was murdered.
Yes, the accused were probably not making good decisions here. As per my OP, it is the sentences that are the problem.
I am sure that many of you can provide additional info to Mr. Reply Police, and I encourage you to do so, but please please ••un-CC me•• when you do.