"Don't do the crime, if you can't do the time!"
Posted on 12/28/2021 6:25:16 PM PST by algore
Washington Democrats hope to go easy on drive-by murderers in order to promote racial equity for criminals. It’s the latest light-on-crime scheme pushed under the guise of being anti-racist.
House Bill 1692 lessens the criminal penalties for drive-by shootings. It prohibits using a drive-by shooting as a basis for elevating a first degree murder charge to an aggravated first degree murder. The bill is also retroactive, lessening punishment for those already found guilty in drive-by shooting cases. It even offers carve-outs to release felons from jail if they committed their violent act when they were under 21-years-old.
The bill’s sponsors, state Representatives Tarra Simmons (D-Bremerton) and David Hackney (D-Tukwila), pre-filed the bill ahead of the Jan. 10, 2022, start to the legislative session. They claim this change promotes “racial equity in the criminal legal system.” It does no such thing. It merely goes easy on criminals who deserve lifetime jail sentences.
HB 1692, if passed, would remove drive-by shootings from the list of aggravated factors. Thus, a drive-by murderer, if charged and convicted, could be released from prison. But the bill goes even farther than reclassifying drive-by shootings
HB 1692 is retroactive if a drive-by shooting was the only aggravating factor in the first degree murder charge.
That means that anyone convicted or who plead guilty to first degree murder with a drive-by as the sole aggravating factor, “must be returned to the sentencing court or the sentencing court’s successor for entry of a conviction of murder in the first degree and sentencing according to the sentencing guidelines in effect on the date of the offense.”
The age of the suspect also comes into play, both retroactively and in the future, “regardless of any other provisions of state law
Alright then, all you guilty White lieberals need to line up beside the road and let BLM mow you down with assault style weapons
I hope the politicians become victims of their own policy choices. Would be a shame if one of their family members got gunned down in a drive-by shooting, just to have to apply their ridiculous decision to the gunman in question...Karma.
I guess Wypipo dont discharge firearms at people from within their vehicles
The ‘Rats have become a parody of themselves.
Since blacks are the most likely victims of drive by shootings, aren’t these legislators just saying that black lives don’t matter all that much? After a quick calculation I figure that this proposed law says they only matter 60% as much as a white victim.< /s>
Unless they are Kirkland PD (in king county) who have their own indoor drive through practice drive by shooting range.
I can’t understand why it’s not racist to kill primarily blacks in drive by shootings. I haven’t checked any stats but the only drive by shootings I’ve ever seen were black on black.
Sooner or later it’s going to be open season on these people since the left won’t do anything about it.
“ Alright then, all you guilty White lieberals need to line up beside the road and let BLM mow you down with assault style weapons.”
Or the other way around.
I’m just saying.
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So...the Democrat lunatics believe it’s racial equity to be a black victim of a drive-by shooting?
When blacks do the crime, they gotta do the time!
LOVE you use of “lieberals!”
Howsomever, you misspelled it: “LIEberals” is the correct spelling!
Keep up the good work!
"Don't do the crime, if you can't do the time!"
I know you are right!
Liberalism is a mental deficiency.
I would pay good money to see that!
Who cares, as long as they are killing each other?
Racial Equity = Everyone Does The Same Time
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