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Originally Posted by transplant99
I understand your take on this, i live with someone who feels similar.
I will ask though,
What should the penalty be when someone is responsible for ending 16 lives through their own actions and admits it?
And as noted in court it was said this was not a mistake, this was a crime by definition.
He will be out in 4 years...that seems light to me, but i can live with it.
He absolutely needed to be penalized for this beyond whatever else he is living with inside his head.
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This isn't your everyday cut and dried case. If someone really needs to be prosecuted, it's the whole system that allowed him to be driving solo after two weeks of riding shotgun.
Two years, 20 years, 100 years won't bring back the people who died, and wont reverse the injuries of the survivors or the families involved. His sentence is pretty much a waste of time to talk about.
He was not running that Stop sign to save time or make more money. There was no malice. It was inexperience that caused this tragedy. Inexperience that we currently allow on our roads. The real question is why was he driving a truck like that, alone? Sending him to prison or to India or to Guantanamo isn't going to address the real reason this particular accident happened.