If you're going to be sentenced as if you'd killed someone, even though you didn't, then you've got nothing to lose by actually killing someone.
Not the most sensible law ever created.
The lesson here is don't commit crimes, especially not those that involve risk of death. Which, given the abundance of legal firearms, is quite likely. Thus circling back to don't commit the crimes.
Teenage stoners break in to a house and get themselves shot by the occupant legitimately defending himself. I feel bad for the homeowner having to be put through all this.