So why would a small town in East Texas claim that one of its residents, an assumedly gay man, should be given a lenient sentence for shooting an old woman in the back?
"We need to focus on the people who are shooting people," Mr. Williams said of the newly lenient penalties for marijuana.
Mr. Zimmerman, who is Hispanic, has been interviewed by the police, but officials decided not to charge him in the shooting, citing his assertion of self-defense under a lenient Florida law known as Stand Your Ground.
And as all the world knows, Brad and Ange did the nasty during the shoot and perpetuated the association afterwards, thus breaking the lenient Hollywood rule of DCOL: Doesn't Count On Location - the movie actors' equivalent of the holiday romance.
On March 24, many survivors of the shooting, along with others upset by the nation's lenient gun control laws, plan to take to the streets in a march on Washington, D.C., and around the nation.
His defence lawyers say Judge Masipa should be lenient on the Paralympian, who they has suffered emotionally and financially after the shooting.
The man who seven years ago ambushed and fatally shot one of the few U.S. doctors performing late-term abortions was given a more lenient sentence Wednesday of at least 25 years in prison before becoming eligible for parole.
And there is little doubt that Trayvon Martin would be alive today if Florida weren't so lenient when it comes to gun regulation if it didn't allow civilians to carry around firearms, basically at will, shoot people and then make a claim self-defense, freezing criminal investigations.
As a young Tory MP, David Cameron backed more lenient penalties for the possession of cannabis and ecstasy - and allowing heroin to be prescribed to addicts in "shooting galleries".
Britain looks particularly lenient.
