If karma was real wouldn't people just stop doing bad things?
I think it has to do with time and event. A bad karma event is not fixed by a good karma event, nor necessarily in one's lifetime (reincarnation). Karma or what goes around comes around. Event's happen -- there is nothing magical or counted for or against one.
No way of answering that question because Karma is only a concept and isn’t real. The fact that people who believe in it still do bad things sort of refutes their belief in it in my eyes. I don’t know why people, when faced with demonstrably unreliable evidence, still persist in their beliefs.