Posted on 08/06/2013 5:50:40 AM PDT by rellimpank
With non-fatal shootings in the city up 19% in June and July compared with last year, Police Chief Edward Flynn and Mayor Tom Barrett on Monday called on state legislators to pass laws boosting penalties for criminals who possess firearms.
Three people were killed and eight others were wounded over the weekend, a toll more violent than the same weekend last year. Milwaukee police statistics also show that June and July this year have had the most non-fatal shootings since the same months in 2006.
Flynn and Barrett said the linkage between firearms-related deadly violence and criminals was clear-cut.
"The culture of retaliatory violence is aided and abetted by the fact that it's more dangerous to see your enemy without your gun than with it," Flynn said.
He added that the majority of shooters and their victims were people with long criminal histories.
Both called on legislators to enact a law that calls for a three-year minimum mandatory sentence for illegally possessing a firear
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But that might hurt their feelings and self esteem. Can’t be doin’ that. Incidentally, I read that kalifornia is prepping to turn a whole bunch of “reformed”(?) criminals out of prison under mandate from some court due to overcrowding.
Longer sentences and tougher judges for armed criminals makes sense. So does imposing the death penalty for murder, as long as it is carried out expeditiously.
Leave it to the liberal press. This isn’t a gun control law, it is a punish the criminals for the crime of carrying a firearm and using it illegally. The NRA has pushed these type of laws for decades. Pass laws that have mandatory sentencing for committing crimes with firearms and for felons who carry firearms. Real common sense laws, unlike the liberals BS of banning guns for everyone.
Because tougher gun laws worked so well for Chicago, D.C., Detroit, L.A. .......
-(I only posted it because it is almost the direct opposite of what Barrett and Flynn have been preaching previously---)
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