... himself in the leg.  Donte Stallworth got 30 days in jail for killing a pedestrian while driving drunk.  The outrage! The horror! The completely uninformed public opinion!

The 24-hour news culture and the general dumbing down of the American people as a whole has led people to form the most simplistic opinions possible.  The recent high profile criminal cases involving NFL players has exemplified this.

It's common sense that killing someone while drunk driving is a far worse than carrying an unlicensed firearm.  However, criminal acts don't act in a vacuum.  The circumstances and context surrounding each event play a major factor in the punishment given out.  This seems to be lost on a lot of pe...

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