[Former Military Chick]

mandatory-minimum laws **ping**

This is an important subject that I think requires open and honest discussion.

Thanks in advance!

[The_Republican]

I am NOT AT ALL Heart Broken.

There is a reason the CRIME RATE is at 30 or is it 60 year lows.

If one of those drug sales where this guy took his guns, has gone bad, how long would it have taken for him to kill someone else or get killed himself.

This is what these laws are for. You have 3 chances, and if you are too retarted to not stop, you deserve to sit in jail cell for rest of your life.

His age doesn't matter, his crimes do.

[rogue yam]

I'm no expert but it seems to me that the reason there are mandatory minimum sentences is because the public got tired of seeing criminals get minimal punishment and then repeatedly re-offend. The public then leaned on the legislators to do something about it and they passed laws imposing minimum sentences. Democracy in action. Since it is largely the same folks complaining about the harshness of minimum sentencing who supported the politicians who appointed the too-lenient judges in the first place, I say "tough darts!"

[konaice]

Angelos, the founder of the Utah-based rap music label Extravagant Records, initially faced at least a 61 1/2-year sentence for the 16 criminal counts of which he was convicted in December. The bulk of that term — the 55 years imposed Tuesday — is based on just three firearms charges for carrying a gun during two drug sales and for keeping additional firearms at his Fort Union apartment.

Notice how the writer goes out of their way NOT to mention what the 16 other charges were? This guy is a career criminal, buw we are supposed to cry big crocadile tears because he leaves a wife and daughter behind while he is kept off the street where he belongs?

slam door, toss key.