I totally agree... Its too discouraging now-a-days for people to really rely on the court system to deliver justice to the miscreants that walk this nation. The really unfortunate part is that now it's "cool" to go to prison, as if thugs and hoodlums don't have any street credibility unless they've been locked up.
Anyone hear about the handgun owner in Los Angeles who was targeted by gang members being initiated- they were supposed to kill a random person to be let into the gang, so two guys armed with rudimentary shanks went after the wrong guy and one died on the street, the other of internal injuries at the hospital. It happened a few years ago not far from where a friend of mine lived.