[ambrose]

The crazy pendulum... no mandatories, and rapists and killers will sometimes go before a bleeding heart judge and get probation... mandatory sentences, and you can end up with stories like this.

[eno_]

There IS a solution: End the Drug War and we'd have room for long mandatory sentences for violent crime and habitual property crime.

[SearchMaster]

Agreed. Maybe realistic minimum sentences, but maybe thats the same thing with a different conclusion True justice never appears black and white.