Doesn't attacking a person on stage deserves sever punishment

We never have before. I couldn't find a comprehensive list of incidents involving people on stage with everything being about Chapelle, but here's one of "bottling" incidents that includes a few scuffles, and being hit with a rock or a bottle can do a lot more damage than a tackle by a small man: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bottling_incidents_by_year and a few other on stage incidents: https://www.axios.com/2022/05/04/dave-chappelle-other-fan-attacks

If people weren't outraged over Chris Rock getting slapped, which I also didn't think was a big deal, this would be a minor blurb in the news and nobody would care. These things happen occasionally. As it stands I'm concerned a bunch of well intentioned people who never go to concerts or shows are going to harshly legislate something that doesn't affect them, and heavily penalize a man when they don't even realize this isn't an uncommon occurrence.

What is different, is normally ten people don't take the fan out back and beat him like they did. I think if we're going to ignore that crime, we can ignore the other one.

The "gun knife" matters though, I have heard conflicting reports about that. Was it simply on his person, or was he brandishing it?