BULLDOG
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They ban and confiscate heroin too. Is the heroin ban bad policy? Should they just sell heroin in the grocery stores because people are using it anyway? You`re a rather uncomplicated thinker are you not?
Meanwhile, another mass murder in Pa.
5 killed in shooting at car wash in Melcroft, Pennsylvania
You aren't very bright, are you. We have laws that already govern the legitimate use of guns the same way we have them for drugs.
If you use a gun to commit a crime, you go to jail. If you buy, own or carry a gun as a felon, you go to jail. We have all the laws on the books we need to regulate guns...our problem is that people like you keep letting the violent criminals out of jail...
Lock up violent criminals for 30 years and the actual gun crime problem will go down to almost nothing...
Keep letting violent offenders out...and you get to push what you really want, gun control for law abiding people who don't use guns for crime...
But Democrat Stateās Attorney Julia Reitz cut a deal to let Robbie Patton, a sociopathic predator who will never contribute anything but sewage and sadness to our society, avoid serving hard time for attempted murder.
Itās true. Bad guys in prison donāt victimize the innocent. Florida had proven success with 10-20-Life sentencing enhancements for the use of a firearmwhile committing a violent crime. A court struck down the law in 2016. Under the law, Floridaās firearmviolent crime rate plummeted to the lowest levels in the Sunshine Stateās recorded history.
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John Boch: Lock Them Up! - The Truth About Guns
When you lock up violent criminals, you prevent them from victimizing other innocents. Crime in America dipped almost 50%after America abandoned āsoft on crimeā attitudes of the 1970s. Of course, many soft-on-crime politicians like Reitz have once more taken a love to ādiversionā programs. And thatās how we get Robbie Patton (above), a local crime celebrity of sorts.
In 2015, he had an altercation at a Champaign Steak ān Shake restaurant commonly frequented by my friends and me. While none of us were enjoying a milkshake or steakburger at 5:30pm, Robbie was.
Robbie found himself in an altercation inside the restaurant. He felt one of his friends had been ādisrespectedā, so little Robbie went outside. He waited for the other group to emerge, pulled out of gun and tried to kill those other people.
He missed, and fled the scene with an Illinois State Trooper in hot pursuit. After a short, high-speed chase in a stolen car, Robbie crashed and escaped on foot.
Cops caught up with him. Local prosecutor Julia Reitz then went soft on little Robbie. She let him go to āboot campā, even though that sentencing option is not supposed to be available for violent offenders. And squeezing off a bunch of shots at other people, trying to kill them, pretty much fits the bill as a violent crime.
After serving eight months on an eight-year sentence, Robbie returned to the streets of Champaign-Urbana. In less than two days, cops arrested him again for drugs and who knows what else. Not even three weeks after that, heās illegally got agun. When someone ādisrespectsā another one of Robbieās friends, guess what he does? He pulls out the gun and fires shots at those he believes responsible.
He misses his intended targets, but in the busy University of Illinois campustown district, his errant, not-so-late-night rounds found four innocent people within a block or two. George Korchev, the recent nursing school graduate due to start his career as a registered nurse at a hospital in Libertyville, IL, the following Monday morning, was struck and killed a blockaway from one of Robbieās bullets.
How many of our mass shooters were felons, but were able to get the guns anyway? Obviously, your use of that talking point is just more effort to muddle the discussion
Almost zero. Mass shootings are different from criminal activity where multiple people are shot....please try to do some basic research. And those criminals are not going through the federally mandated background check that you need to pass to buy a gun....
In fact, your link to the shooting of those 5 people is likely criminal activity and not a mass public shooting....and odds are, the shooter or shooters are already felons, already banned from buying, owning or carrying the guns they used..
And the British criminals who are using guns are not able to buy them at stores...they are banned and confiscated on the island nation.....and yet they are getting them in increasing numbers...
So a mass shooting isn't a criminal activity where multiple people are shot? Your head is overheating again. Better cool it off.
In Britain, crooks are reduced to renting guns to do their crimes. They can't just buy one from an individual without a background check. Why do you want to make it easier for crooks and crazy people to have guns?
Gun shortages forcing rival gangs to 'rent weapons from middlemen' | Daily Mail Online
Gun shortage forces gangs to take turns renting SAME weapons from middlemen
Moron...our gangs do the same thing, the gang controls who gets the guns....the same thing. The FBI determines it moron....a mass public shooting is different than a gang shooting doofus....
And our criminals get around your background checks easily, they steal the guns or get a straw buyer....and our gun crime rate is going down, their gun crime rate, on an Island, where they banned guns...is going up....
Would you be in favor of stopping criminals from stealing guns, or having straw buyers? Of course you would. Gun sales without a background check is another way criminals get guns. Why don't you want to take that option from them? You support criminals easily buying guns without background checks. You should be ashamed.