Personal responsibility and accountability are key conservative principles.
Life in prison? idk....does a drunk driver that kills someone get life in prison.?
If a guy has killed his hunting buddy by being careless should he get life in prison?
I think there should be a distinction, and there is one made in law, between premeditated murder and manslaughter.
I’m going to have to check the details but iirc the woman whose dogs (wrongly identified at first as ‘pitbills’) killed two elderly people was sentencedd the other day to 4+ years in prison.
My point was holding owners responsible. Period.
But you bring up drunk drivers... my feelings on that situation is that drunk drivers should see a much more harsh penalty when they kill someone than the currently typical “vehicular homicide:, or the also popular “negligent homicide”. Somewhat akin to me getting one of my firearms out of the safe and driving through random neighborhoods randomly firing off shots at houses and cars. A drunk driver knows what he/she is doing when they take a drink.