Those are some ugly mandatory minimums. I am also tracking the Michael Strickland case in Portland.

All of this stuff is definitely raising the stakes when you have factions which are going to show up to these things knowing that if a standoff separates relatively peacefully, the opposition will come back at individuals with crazy long prison sentences.

It leaves very little incentive to refrain from violence when it is demonstrated that's how the people using government as their main weapon and false prosecution are going to play it.

It means guys can walk away from an on site negotiated peace and still get hammered for life, so that cheapens the effectiveness and word of any negotiators in future situations by raising the stakes and having these guys walk out of stuff not really knowing if they are clear or the equivalent to an armed third strike felon depending on how an election or judicial appointment might go.