> Am 29 Jun 17  18:12:00 schrob Mike Powell an GERHARD STRANGAR zum Thema 
> 
> 
> >> Why would they shoot you if you're unarmed?
> MP> Happens all the time.  They are strung out, impatient, or just
don't care
> MP> about human life.  Folks who become criminals are not usually nice 
> MP> people. Maybe in Germany they are, not here.
> 
> It's more a matter of beings smart, I think. Minumum sentence for
robbery here
> is 6 months, armed robbery at least 5 years and if someone dies, it's
at least
> 10 years. And sentences don't just add up, so it's not about 100 or 150
years,
> you actually have the chance of leaving prison without a coffin.

In some places in this country, premeditated murder will get you a
sentence of 20 years to life, and you'll be out the prison gate in 15
years.

Unfortunately, this "most free country on earth" has more people in
prison, both in raw numbers and as a percentage of the population, than
any other country on the planet.  So the prisons are overcrowded -
prisons are about the only growth industry in this country - and
eventually some judge will order that prisoners be released due to that
overcrowding.