[rellimpank]

--I usually include a "barf alert" on anything from the S-T but this one doesn't yet get into the usual "gun control" yatter--although I suspect the recommendations of the mentioned committee will----

[Gaffer]

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.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I know! I know!

Only enforce the gun laws against white people!

[Mr. K]

"So much is at stake, especially in Chicago, where the bloodshed from guns is constant and horrific."

Isn't it illegal to own a gun there?

[Texas Eagle]

Illinois has a chance to get smarter about penalties for gun crimes, hitting offenders with longer sentences where needed and shorter ones where appropriate.

Translation: Longer sentences for those who are not registered DemocRATS. Shorter sentences for those who are.

[Squantos]

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.....

[PapaBear3625]

The problem with mandatory sentences for "gun crimes", is that for violent felons it can get plea bargained, but for a CCW where some violation is the ONLY thing the prosecutor has, he's not going to plea bargain because that would leave the prosecutor with nothing.

Enhancements for offenses committed with "deadly weapons" are already on the books.

[umgud]

One thing is for certain; You can trust Chicago to do the wrong thing.

[The_Reader_David]

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.