Your analogy doesn’t hold because it’s a very different crime with very different intent and culpability.
I’m simply pointing to the most similar Federal crimes and pointing out that the sentences are proportional. For comparison, Federal attempted murder-to-hire is only 10 years and that’s clearly a much worse crime.
Tragically there’s now over 1000 cases of swatting per year. Only one person (Andrew Finch) has been killed by police. (The swatter in this case was charged with involuntary manslaughter and got 20 years in jail).
It’s not comparable to murder because it’s much more likely that someone would be killed by you offering them a ride in your car than by swatting them.
>It’s not comparable to murder because it’s much more likely that someone would be killed by you offering them a ride in your car than by swatting them.
My car rides don't come with a 0.1% chance of death. I'm not that bad of a driver.
If I drive 1 trip per day, a 0.1% chance of death on each trip means I would only survive 3 years on average. And I take more than 1 trip per day. Most people live much more than 3 years, so the risk is certainly less than 0.1% per trip.
Let's calculate it. There were 42,915 traffic deaths in the US in 2021.[1]
Americans take 411 billion trips per year.[2]
That's 42915/411000000000 = 0.00001% chance of death per trip. So a driving trip is 10000x safer than being swatted.
I’m simply pointing to the most similar Federal crimes and pointing out that the sentences are proportional. For comparison, Federal attempted murder-to-hire is only 10 years and that’s clearly a much worse crime.
Tragically there’s now over 1000 cases of swatting per year. Only one person (Andrew Finch) has been killed by police. (The swatter in this case was charged with involuntary manslaughter and got 20 years in jail).
It’s not comparable to murder because it’s much more likely that someone would be killed by you offering them a ride in your car than by swatting them.