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I am disappointed that the blame was not laid fairly among those in charge. The Club owners should have at least gotten half that sentence. When the owner of an establishment does not ensure that the environment is safe for it's customers then they are liable. The band was only getting paid from the owner, he was the one who invited the band to come, and he should have been the one to ensure safe numbers and that proper exits were available.
I don't think I'd say that the band manager should get less of a punishment just because it's not all his fault though. Everyone involved in the planning for that event has equal and full responsibility. I do think that community service or some other type of punishment would be more appropriate and more useful to all involved.
As for saying that other people who do worse, get less of a punishment - I don't think that should be a reason for making the band manager's punishment smaller. Just because we aren't harsh enough on worse offenders does not lesson the gravity of what happened in this situation. It just means that we need to make the other offenders suffer a harder punishment.
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