re: #1 Skip Intro

I can’t understand why firing a warning shot is worth 20 years in the slammer when shooting someone dead leaves you free and makes you a celebrity.

It’s like this. When a Judge sentences a convicted person his guide is not completely unconnected cases or people. He or she goes by precedent, his or her judgement and perhaps those ubiquitous “mandatory” or “guided” sentences. Looking at unconnected cases that have some coincidental features is not justice. It’s crowd pleasing. Oh and judges like every other kind of person can screw up.