Regarding the Thursday article, “Emotions high at sentencing for Arlington shooting”:
Ray Lane, a decent citizen, gets 2 1/2 years for firing a shotgun at a vehicle. Who exactly got hurt? The hundreds of children in my Little League who lost a field to play on, and a source of labor and equipment they could not otherwise afford. Our community lost a devoted servant.
The judge said that community service as a penalty does not apply here. So ruining a man’s life applies? He made a bad decision, but this is not justice.
The trespassers who were shot at now have nightmares. Good! Maybe that will knock some sense into them. I deal with this type of situation on a weekly basis. I have yet to find any teenagers looking at the stars and drinking coffee in the middle of the night. These teens’ parents should have put the blame on their own children. Mr. Lane will survive this ordeal, and come out strong, but at great expense. He will watch murderers, thieves, molesters, and the scum of society come in and out of the prison system while he sits back and ponders his sentence. Because we are good upstanding citizens, if we break the law we deserve a harsher punishment? Habitual criminals must have had a bad family life, so it can’t be their fault. Let them try again and maybe they’ll be good. This community should be up in arms about this conviction. It’s time to reform this injustice system.
Mark Walker
Arlington
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