Comment: Why bother the line about being "required to register"? He'll be in jail for the rest of his life.

What gets me is not that this guy gets his 47+17, but that we read so much about other ne'er-do-wells, with lengthy rap sheets, who are nevertheless out on the streets until they commit their next Big One. (Very recently, this cost the paint store owner his life.) Why aren't they all given hefty sentences at their *first* major infraction, the types that suggest an imminent step up the criminality ladder to things like assault with deadly weapon, rape, and murder?

At some point in the violence escalation stage, the priority MUST become the protection of the law-abiding, not the transgressor's "rights" to treatment, safe spaces, clean needle exchanges, hugs, etc. If they've made choices that prove they do not belong with actual human beings, then keep them *away* from actual human beings, and make no apologies for it. Fewer innocents will be killed that way.