but will the youth gangs and other criminal element be deterred by more gun restrictions?
The gang bangers and the rest of the crud will not be deterred by the laws because they think they won’t get caught and prosecuted now. What it will do, if they get caught and the system doesn’t let them go, will be to warehouse them for three years so that they will be off the streets.
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I wouldn't call it a gun restriction. Milwaukee's Mayor is pressing legislators to "pass laws boosting penalties for criminals who possess firearms." The Mayor isn't asking that citizens be prevented from possessing guns legally, nor is he calling for any penalties for those who use their guns legally. He's simply calling for sentencing penalty enhancers for people who use a gun while committing a criminal act or for possessing a gun illegally. As long as Wisconsin doesn't make it difficult to possess a firearm legally like other blue states often do, then I don't have a problem with the Mayor's suggestion.
Well actually these aren't "gun restrictions", they are sentences on/for commission of crimes using firearms.
My take.....the law should REQUIRE that violent firearm crimes should ALWAYS be tried, and not "plea-bargained" away as they for the most part are currently.
Also, that each use of a firearm in a violent felony count as a separate instance towards "three-strikes" permanent incarceration. In theory, a perp could then get life imprisonment for a single crime, if more than one firearms violation occurred during commission of the original felony.