Good things those laws kept them out of his hands.....

Oh.

Too difficult to cherry pick who "should" and "shouldn't" have access.

The only public policy should be in the direction of scarcity for one and all, from sea to shining sea.

If we can't keep firearms out of the hands of homicidal crazies and gang bangers how in the hell are we going to get them all in your little utopia?

Thanks to mandatory minimum sentencing for people who recreationally use drugs, prisons sometimes have to release violent criminals before they serve their full sentence. Either that or he plead guilty in exchange for a lighter sentence from the prosecutiong attorney who didnt want to have to work to prove him guilty and offered up a 10-20 year charge. I read he killed grandma in 1981, so add 20 or 30 years and he could have been out a few years already.

Just another sicko who should have been locked up till he died of natural causes. I too am against the death penalty, but not against serving life in prison that actually means staying behind bars till they carry you out in a pine box.

you raised some disturbing points.

He actually served the full manslaughter sentence and then some, since 1st degree manslaughter maxed out at 15 years then.

convicted of manslaughter in his grandmother's death.

Why that was, for such a brutal act, I don't know. Maybe there was some sort of plea deal. Manslaughter would have a shorter sentence, relatively speaking. So I guess he served his time.

Like I said, I'm just going on what I read. Maybe someone else has more details.

Throw in some age discrimination because his grandmother was "old"?

Manslaughter for beating somebody to death with a hammer? That's the work of a demented animal. You don't turn somebody like that loose on the public.

was called manslaughter instead of the first or second degree murder it should have been. It looks like he bargained down in exchange for a guilty plea.

"Life" doesn't mean "life without parole". They're separate sentences, and not all states have both. I actually think in death penalty states juries wouldn't be so eager to vote for death if there was a life without parole option.

The DA accepted a plea deal down from murder. It used to happen quite a bit for rather horrific murders. Doesn't happen quite as much now.