I have a concealed weapon permit and think about sometimes if I could have taken his life if I had my gun. The answer is still I don't know. I never really thought at the time to hit him when he had his knife out. I took a step back and was in read and react mode.
That came across wrong. While I don't agree with anything you say, my point is this. People in power not following the law is a macro problem. You getting robbed is a you problem. If dude robbed me, it would be a me problem. That is how I see the world. Ray Donovan style.
I'm not doubting what kmf says. I'm just saying if the DA plead it down, the judge may have had no choice in sentencing.
I don't usually take anything you say as you truly disliking me, I argue all the time with some of my best friends. And if you take anything I say as me personally not liking you, I apologize. That being said, you're crazy as hell if you think a lady not issuing a same sex wedding license, or having the audacity to not do what King Judge as ruled spending more time that a person that could have potentially killed a man for beer money. Gay people can still love each other until the cows come home without having a paper to say it's ok. What they want is the benefits they get from being married. I don't care if they get married, let them be as miserable as the rest of us married people.
I'd say it's more like, use the water fountain that squirts the cold water and not the one the dumb ass keeps wiping his pecker on.
Public resources are public. If someone wants to use the one someone wipes his pecker on, let 'em. And put the jackass in jail that keeps wiping his pecker on the public resource.