This is one of those crimes that’s just mind boggling. You know that 99% of these people making death threats to politicians and judges have zero intent and likely close to zero aptitude to make good on the threats. And it also should be pretty obvious that making death threats towards politicians and judges carries heavy penalties and is going to be aggressively investigated. Yet these idiots are full steam ahead, damn the torpedos, straight into a double digit prison sentence.

And inevitably, their attorney will default to the usual “he never intended to act on these threats and simply exercised poor judgment, so he really doesn’t deserve to go to jail, now does he?”