Then you have this kind of Lefty fun and games:
Four anti-ICE activists were arrested after allegedly planting homemade tire deflation devices around vehicles belonging to federal law enforcement agents conducting immigration enforcement operations in the Van Nuys neighborhood of Los Angeles.
The question, then, is what kind of punishment should be meted out to the little scamps who perpetrated this mischief?
Obviously, this is overkill (so to speak):
…because the tire-spikes are not deadly things, per se.
And clearly, fines and similar wrist-slaps are not adequate punishment either; but imprisonment seems a little harsh — not to me, but to the average citizen, maybe. So perhaps a little public punishment might be called for:
Lots of owie, but nothing long-lasting — pour encourager les autres, if you’ll excuse my French.
Just sayin’.