Well, that sounds pretty close to the NRA's remedy of harsh longer sentencing for those that commit gun crimes.
What ever happened to "Three strikes and you're out"?
...Well, that sounds pretty close to the NRA’s remedy of harsh longer sentencing for those that commit gun crimes...
For a while there were some Federal grants to allow a county’s locally based state Prosecutor to act as a Deputy US Attorney who could prosecute gun crimes Federally.
The street thugs HATED that because Federal gun Crime sentences are really harsh compared to state sentences and the sentences were long enough that it became not worth committing the crime to do the time. Word got out quick in the street punk thug This was done in Ingham County,Michigan. It worked
“What ever happened to “Three strikes and you’re out”? “
Liberals didn’t like it. Said it was too harsh. I served our county’s first criminal grand jury that handed down an Indictment under 3 Strikes in CA. One of the other jurors expressed concerns to the DA when she found out the guy was going away for life if convicted. So the DA had his ADA read the guy’s rap sheet. Then the whole GJ felt better about their action. The 3 Strikes charge was for Residential Burglary. He had done everything but actually kill someone, but he had tried. Sorry to see this going away. It was a good tool.