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Is he a career criminal?

Yes. He was convicted under the Armed Career Criminal Statute. He is lucky to be in PA. In CA it would be his third strike.

I didn't ask what he was convicted under, I asked "is he a career criminal?" The two are not the same. I would like to know if this guy's convictions were youthful folly. In any case, this guy may be scum but if so, why not charge him with something that is actually wrong? His punishment for this violation of this law (created by "look how much I hate crime" legislators whose concern was reelection rather than good government.) is totally out of proportion to the seriousness of the act.

I am not much impressed with the "It was wrong because it was against the rules" argument. It quit working on me when I was about 8 years old. Laws should be just, rational and proportional. This meets none of those criteria.