School shooter guilty of theft (Killer of 4 gets jail time for theft)

A man who as a teenager fired on his middle-school classmates has been sentenced to an extra six years in prison for using a stolen debit card, this time to pay for a $7.99 Burger King breakfast.

Mitchell Johnson, 24, pleaded guilty and was sentenced for theft and financial identity fraud. It was his third sentencing since he was released from prison three years ago for his role in the school shooting.

Johnson was 13 when he and an 11-year-old schoolmate killed four students and a teacher at Jonesboro Westside Middle School in March 1998. Ten other people were injured.

Johnson was sentenced in November to 12 years in prison for the January 2008 theft of the debit card and a purchase he made with the card in Benton County. Thursday's 18-year sentence, to run concurrently, was for using the card to buy the Burger King breakfast in Washington County. That term applies at the end of his current four-year sentence for gun and drug possession, stemming from an arrest in 2007.

"That term applies at the end of his current four-year sentence for gun and drug possession, stemming from an arrest in 2007."

So, he KILLED four people, was RELEASED a few years later and then was picked up on GUN AND DRUG charges, for which he was sentenced to a FOUR YEAR term? Then they gave him 18 years for the theft?

Are they trying to create sympathy for the poor lad getting such a steep sentence for the theft?

Am I reading this right?

I am so disturbed by this...

Lyrics courtesy of Oingo Boingo:

Johnny was bad, even as a child everybody could tell
Everyone said if you dont get straight
Youll surely go to hell

But johnny didnt care
He was an outlaw by the time that he was
Ten years old
He didnt wanna do what he was told
Just a prankster, juvenile gangster

His teachers didnt understand
They kicked him out of school
At a tender early age
Just because he didnt want to learn things
(had other interests)
He liked to burn things

The lady down the block
She had a radio that johnny wanted oh so bad
So he took it the first chance he had
Then he shot her in the leg
And this is what she said
Only a lad
You really cant blame him
Only a lad
Society made him
Only a lad
Hes our responsibility
Only a lad
He really couldnt help it
Only a lad
He didnt want to do it
Only a lad
Hes underprivileged and abused
Perhaps a little bit confused

His parents gave up they couldnt influence his attitude
Nobody could help
The little man had no gratitude

And when he stole the care
Nobody dreamed that he would
Try to take it so far
He didnt mean to hit the poor man
Who had to go and die
It made the judge cry

Only a lad
He really couldnt help it
Only a lad
He didnt want to do it
Only a lad
Hes underprivileged and abused
Perhaps a little bit confused

Its not his fault that he cant believe
Its not his fault that he cant behave
Society made him go astray
Perhaps if were nice hell go away
Perhaps hell go away
Hell go away

(repeat chorus)

Hey there johnny you really dont fool me
You get away with murder
And you think its funny
You dont give a damn if we live or if we die
Hey there johnny boy
I hope you fry!

From the best Reggae album ever made:
“Walking down the road
With your pistol in your waist,
Johnny you’re too bad.
Walking down the road
With your ratchet in your waist,
Johnny you’re too bad.

You’re just robbing and you’re stabbing and you’re looting and you’re shooting
Now you’re too bad.
You’re just robbing and you’re stabbing and you’re looting and you’re shooting
Now you’re too bad.

One of these days when you hear a voice say come
Where you gonna run to
One of these days when you hear a voice say come
Where you gonna run to

You’re gonna run to the rock for rescue
There will be no rock
You’re gonna run to the rock for rescue
There will be no rock”

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