2aguy
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Jeff Sessions seems to have woken from his nap and has directed Federal Prosecutors to go after low level gun criminals....this is a good thing. This is how you stop gun crime. You don't stop gun crime by taking guns away from law abiding people, you stop gun crime by locking up gun criminals for long periods of time......and with the Feds doing it, they will likely actually spend quality time in prison...
So instead of the democrat judge in Chicago sentencing a violent gun criminal to boot camp and out in under 3 years.......in a nearby jail....these guys will be sent far away to a federal prison.....for a long time......
Just what the Doctor ordered....
Sessions Directs Federal Prosecutors to Target Low-Level Gun Crimes - The Truth About Guns
According to the New York Times, Attorney General Jeff Sessions is trying a new tack by prosecuting low-level gun crimes. Sound familiar? It should. Gun owners have been saying for years that if the laws currently on the books were enforced, we’d see fewer overall crime and there would be no need for more gun control laws.
Mr. Sessions’s approach has touched off a debate about whether he is making the country safer from violent crime, as he and President Trump have repeatedly vowed to do, or devoting resources to low-level prosecutions that could instead be put toward pursuing bigger targets like gun suppliers.
Think of it as another version of Rudy Giuliani’s “broken windows” approachthat curbed New York’s crime problem and made the city more livable in the 1990s.
Cops are apparently a fan of the strategy.
Local police, who have for years sought more muscle from federal law enforcement, welcomed Mr. Sessions’s more aggressive approach.
“We have been trying to send a message,” said J. Thomas Manger, president of the Major Cities Chiefs Association, which represents police departments across the country. “The bad guys have a real fear of federal prosecutions versus state prosecutions.”
That’s because local prosecutions can be, let’s say, spotty. Cities like Chicago are notorious for their revolving door criminal justice system, issuing wrist-slaps to habitual felons who, strangely enough, go on to commit more crimes as soon as their sprung.
But the feds, when pointed in the right direction, put their targets away for longer stretches.
Penalties for federal gun convictions are steep. On average, firearms defendants spend six years in federal prison. If they are convicted under the two statutes requiring mandatory minimum sentences, that average jumps to 11 years.
In the three months following a directive from Mr. Sessions last year to pursue gun crimes, possession cases — a relatively routine charge — rose nearly a quarter. That was part of a 15 percent increase in all federal gun prosecutions in the first nine months of 2017.
So instead of the democrat judge in Chicago sentencing a violent gun criminal to boot camp and out in under 3 years.......in a nearby jail....these guys will be sent far away to a federal prison.....for a long time......
Just what the Doctor ordered....
Sessions Directs Federal Prosecutors to Target Low-Level Gun Crimes - The Truth About Guns
According to the New York Times, Attorney General Jeff Sessions is trying a new tack by prosecuting low-level gun crimes. Sound familiar? It should. Gun owners have been saying for years that if the laws currently on the books were enforced, we’d see fewer overall crime and there would be no need for more gun control laws.
Mr. Sessions’s approach has touched off a debate about whether he is making the country safer from violent crime, as he and President Trump have repeatedly vowed to do, or devoting resources to low-level prosecutions that could instead be put toward pursuing bigger targets like gun suppliers.
Think of it as another version of Rudy Giuliani’s “broken windows” approachthat curbed New York’s crime problem and made the city more livable in the 1990s.
Cops are apparently a fan of the strategy.
Local police, who have for years sought more muscle from federal law enforcement, welcomed Mr. Sessions’s more aggressive approach.
“We have been trying to send a message,” said J. Thomas Manger, president of the Major Cities Chiefs Association, which represents police departments across the country. “The bad guys have a real fear of federal prosecutions versus state prosecutions.”
That’s because local prosecutions can be, let’s say, spotty. Cities like Chicago are notorious for their revolving door criminal justice system, issuing wrist-slaps to habitual felons who, strangely enough, go on to commit more crimes as soon as their sprung.
But the feds, when pointed in the right direction, put their targets away for longer stretches.
Penalties for federal gun convictions are steep. On average, firearms defendants spend six years in federal prison. If they are convicted under the two statutes requiring mandatory minimum sentences, that average jumps to 11 years.
In the three months following a directive from Mr. Sessions last year to pursue gun crimes, possession cases — a relatively routine charge — rose nearly a quarter. That was part of a 15 percent increase in all federal gun prosecutions in the first nine months of 2017.
