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In reply to the discussion: Florida man gets 8 months in prison in 1st felony sentence from Capitol riot [View all]Ocelot II
(115,674 posts)This knucklehead still has to spend time in prison, even if it's not an especially long time. Prison always sucks. More importantly, he will have a felony record forever, which means that, depending on where he lives and how long he's on probation, he won't be able to vote for a long time, if ever. He can't own a gun. He won't be able to get some types of jobs. He's pretty much fucked the rest of his life.
The other thing this suggests is that most of these numpties will end up having to plead to felonies and will also go to the slammer for awhile (presumably this sentence was in accordance with the federal sentencing guidelines) just for having trespassed in the Capitol - without having done anything else. The ones who actually broke things or hurt people will fare a lot worse.