Memphis had a spree shooting incident a few days ago. Why did the shooter, one Ezekiel Kelly, do this? Hard to say. But there’s a little detail that seems kinda important. A detail that had it been different, might have led to a very different outcome. From THIS LINK:
In February 2020, Kelly was charged with two counts of attempted first-degree murder, possession of a firearm and reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon, court records obtained by Heavy show. A grand jury indicted on him on those charges in June 2020. He was 17 years old at the time.
He pleaded guilty to aggravated assault in April 2021 and was sentenced to three years in prison. Kelly served only 11 months in prison and was released only about six months ago, authorities said in the news conference.
Huh.
For starters, he tried to murder someone and was sentenced to only three years… and then only served eleven months. If the justice system actually worked, he would still be in the early stages of his “life plus ninety days to help stink up the joint” sentence. Murderers – actual murderers, not people who kill in self defense, or purely accidentally, etc. – need to be separated from society *permanently.* And attempted murderers are simply murderers who are slightly less competent, and thus should receive the same sentence.
People need to start suing government officials responsible for letting murderers walk among us.