Judicial System

Recently in Deerfield and Highland Park we have had tragedy’s that have hit the hearts of the community. Two weeks ago in Highland Park an 18 year old girl driving under the influence hit a family of 4 killing the little daughter. During the summer two Deerfield students tried to arm rob someone’s house at 7:00am in the morning using a stolen firearm. The gun that was stolen had no ammunition, but it was stolen in the attempt of hurting someone. I am not supporting the decision the two kids made from Deerfield but I don’t understand how both these kids can spend up to 100 years in jail, but the girl that killed a 1^st grader will only spend at most 14 years. She was under the influence and should be convicted in manslaughter. The kids from Deerfield never caused any physical harm to the family or any property. This makes me raise the question is there something wrong with our judicial system? To put this in terms of the media a couple years ago a football player named Plexico Burress shot himself in the leg by accident and went to jail for 2 years for not having a permit on the gun, but another football player ran over and killed a man walking home, the man who killed an innocent citizen spent only 2 months in jail. You would think Burress, who shot himself, inflicted enough pain on himself. Why is that we don’t punish people for killing? Our judicial system is not benefiting from allowing these things to happen. We need to really rethink our punishments because these decisions do not make scenes.