Posted on 12/02/2014 5:58:22 AM PST by rellimpank
Illinois has a chance to get smarter about penalties for gun crimes, hitting offenders with longer sentences where needed and shorter ones where appropriate. We urge the Legislature to seize the opportunity.
So much is at stake, especially in Chicago, where the bloodshed from guns is constant and horrific.
Within the next couple of days, the Legislature’s Joint Criminal Justice Reform Committee will present a series of findings on gun violence and gun laws, reflecting months of listening to law enforcement officials, national criminal justice experts and others. The committee’s findings are expected to be the basis for new laws on guns, as well as on other aspects of the justice system, to be proposed in the spring
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To me, it depends on the political makeup of the committee. I don’t know how the Illinois legislature stacks up R vs. D but if it’s D, then their future recommendations can only be assumed to be MORE punitive and restrictive. You can’t trust a Democrat-controlled anything to do ANYTHING honorable and just. You simply just cannot.
Only enforce the gun laws against white people!
Isn't it illegal to own a gun there?
Translation: Longer sentences for those who are not registered DemocRATS. Shorter sentences for those who are.
Illinois passed CCW. Even for Chicago.
With modern forensics, DNA etc.. Death penalty ...period. One state and federal district review and a Supreme Court Review for every Death Penalty case to preclude any doubt as to guilt with regards to murder. Sentence to be carried out within one calendar year of USSC decision to execute.
All those little bad bad Leroy Browns in Chicago and elsewhere will be culled out of the herd imo.....
Chicago has definitely proved that gun control only leaves people defenseless against people who don’t obey the law that HAVE guns.
Enhancements for offenses committed with "deadly weapons" are already on the books.
One thing is for certain; You can trust Chicago to do the wrong thing.
“Enhancements for offenses committed with “deadly weapons” are already on the books. “
Add 10 years “mandatory” for any crime committed with an unregistered firearm.
None of my firearms are "registered". And "felon in possession of firearm" is already a crime.
Actually a “barf alert” is redundant for any article with uses “gun-crime” in its title.
As I’m fond of pointing out, “gun-crime” is a morally specious category: The victim of a murder committed with a knife, or poison, or a blunt object, is just as dead, the victim’s family and friends just as bereaved, and the soul of the murderer just as stained as in the case of a murder committed with a firearm; the pensioner robbed at knife-point is just as terrified and still out the same money as one robbed at gun-point; and so forth.
Exactly correct.
The whole “gun violence” meme is a propaganda term. Just using it assumes a great deal that is disputed. It is a semantic trick.
***And “felon in possession of firearm” is already a crime. ***
Felons are not required to register their guns.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haynes_v._United_States
“The original Haynes decision continues to block state prosecutions of criminals who fail to register guns as required by various state law gun registration schemes.”
Almost the entire script of "Citizen X" (Russian serial murderer) could be used for a "greatest quote" discussion. Your post reminded me of this interchange:
Bondarchuk: I want to know, why are we arresting so many perfectly respectable doctors and party members?
Burakov: Because we were told to.
Bondarchuk: You were told to investigate them, not detain them!
Burakov: The party members who are doctors we detain for a very brief period of time. The party members who are sexual deviants, we intend to detain a little longer.
Illinois registers people, not guns. Anyone wanting to buy a gun is required to first obtain a Firearm Owners Id. (F.O.I.D.
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