The media is desperately trying to focus on the Portland killing of 2 by a mentally ill man because it fits their ideological agenda while trying to ignore the Mississippi killing of 8 because it doesn't.
Willie Cory Godbolt, who killed 8 people, including a deputy sheriff, should never have been on the loose. He is one of the best arguments for mandatory minimums you can think of.
Godbolt had been repeatedly busted for assault and once for armed robbery. He had been arrested multiple times in the last two years.
The ugly truth about crime is that it's mainly committed by the same people. That's why mandatory minimums work. It's why crime fell sharply once we began locking up criminals. Meanwhile the left and libertarian pro-crime lobby keeps agitating for "sentencing reform" and complaining that Attorney General Sessions wants to actually fight crime.
The shootings in Lincoln County, Mississippi happened because, as is so often the case, the criminal justice system wasn't empowered to keep a persistent menace off the streets.