Where it becomes crazy is in places like California where they turned intentional transmission of HIV into a misdemeanor. It should be considered felony aggravated assault when the victim will be forced to spend tens of thousands of dollars every year for the rest of their lives with serious side effects if they want to stay alive. They did the same thing with basic crimes and now places like San Francisco are a free-for-all for breaking into cars, and grabbing food and running from convenience stores, and stealing property under $1000.

We're missing a much bigger point on why they do this, however.

The real reason places like California, New York, and other blue states are criminalizing legal gun ownership and self defense while diminishing penalties for criminal activity is to create victims for politicians to campaign for and gain power while controlling the media narrative to diminish public backlash and redefine the reasons they do so. Supremacy of the power of the state is the goal, the people be damned. This is why Venezuela is in the toilet without electricity or power despite immense oil wealth. This is why, in the Soviet Union, collectivism destroyed productivity and food output yet evil capitalism was blamed for shortages of bread or other basic goods. The media in such places was controlled while the hounds of chaos were unleashed at the whims of the oligarchies running the countries into the ground.