Felons with guns are the problem...not the guns...

[2aguy]

Here is an example for why the U.S. Has so much gun crime...a criminal justice system that doesn't take criminals with guns seriously...

Arizona ruling overturns conviction of felon carrying gun

Then one of the officers noticed a bulge in Serna's waistband and asked if he had a gun. Serna said he did, and the police told him to put his hands on his head and took the gun. When the police learned that Serna had prior felony convictions, making him a "prohibited possessor," they arrested him and charged him with misconduct with weapons.

At trial, Serna's attorneys claimed that Serna's Fourth Amendment rights against illegal search and seizure had been violated, but the judge rejected the claim, and the Arizona Court of Appeals upheld his conviction.

Serna was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison. According to Arizona Department of Corrections records, he did the time and was released in December 2013.

But on Thursday, the Arizona Supreme Court threw out his sentence and his conviction.

Over the course of the appeals, prosecutors argued that Serna had consented to frisking. The high court wrote that "police interactions with members of the public are inherently fluid, and what begins as a consensual encounter can evolve into a seizure that prompts Fourth Amendment scrutiny."

so, a felon with an illegal gun is back on the street in 2 1/2 years...this is the reason we have so much gun violence...but where do the anti-gunners focus,their attention...on the people who don't break the law...law abiding gun owners...

If this were the gun paradise of Japan...the police wouldn't have asked to search him they would just do it, the prosecutor would get him a long prison sentence and it wouldn't be thrown out...that is how you stop gun crimes...

we could achieve the same thing by simply locking them up for having the illegal gun and still not violate their rights...