Tyranny, plain and simple.
If the court overturned the sentence which the legislature wrote into it's law that would, indeed, be tyranny.
No one is free in a country where the judges write the law.
And the judges are the very ones to blame for the harshness of this guy's sentence!
It was the arbitary and downright frivolous sentencing practices of judges that caused the legislature to write these awkward and iron bound mandatory sentencing guidelines.
Absolutely. When the sentences become draconian, the alternative of just shooting your way out and taking as many as possible with you becomes a little more likely.
55 years is a death sentence.