Thread is jokes, but I wish we as a society had a better answer to the question, "What's the best thing to do with people who happen to have violent tendencies but possibly could get better?"
All our society cares about is punishment, not rehabilitation. So we've designed our prisons to punish and not rehabilitate. Prison isn't where you send someone to fix their problems, it's where you send someone to get them even more fukked up than they already were. As a result, the prison population just keeps growing, because sending somethere there don't fix anything, they just keep going back. And thus we have more people in prison than any other nation on Earth.
Yeah, this guy definitely has violent tendencies and lacks self-control. But if what breh said about the D.A.'s deal is true, then his history can't be that bad. So he definitely acted out in violence here, and he's acted out in violence other times before, but he's maintained enough control over it to stay out of trouble most of the time. If prison WERE a place where he could get help and fix what it wrong with him, then the judge's comment would be great. He needs something fixed for sure. But when we know prison ain't gonna do shyt to change him, what's the point?