In the spring of 1994, California’s Three Strikes was signed into law. It passed with the support of 72 percent of the state’s voters. (Gladwell 236) This law became highly controversial, and on November 6, 2012, voters passed Proposition 36, which amended the law with two primary provisions. Through the controversy, we must take a minute to remember how this law came to be. Mike Reynolds lost his daughter in June of 1992 to murder. His eighteen year old daughter, Kimber, was gunned down at 10:41 p.m. in the parking lot of the Daily Planet restaurant located in Fresno, California. Her attackers were Joe Davis, the shooter, and Douglas Walker. Both men were crystal-meth addicts. Davis, who had recently been paroled from Wasco