EDITOR, The Tribune.

In July, a couple in the Cayman Islands were sentenced to 11.5 and 10 years respectively for being found with a single firearm in their apartment.

Here in The Bahamas this week, a man was sentenced to four and a half years for having eight illegal pistols and nearly a thousand rounds of ammunition in his.

That is the difference between a country that has minimum sentences for a crime that it considers intolerable in view of its affect on society and one that thinks the matter isn’t quite so urgent.

Yet if you thought the former was the society that lost over 100 of its residents to gun violence in 2022 and the latter was the one that lost only 4 (that’s right: four!), then you would have them mixed up - almost as mixed up as our politicians and judges, who (on the issues of bail and sentencing) continue to exhibit markers of Einstein’s definition of insanity.

ANDREW ALLEN

Nassau,

October 4.