Non violent? LOL.
Your definition and mine are far different.
From the record:
” (2) using firearms during a drug trafficking crime; (3) using a telephone to facilitate drug trafficking; (4) using a residence located within 1000 feet of a secondary school for the distribution of cocaine and crack cocaine; and (5) money laundering.”
The only reason he didn’t kill anyone is he was slow on the draw. If he (or anyone) is ever caught selling drugs to kids, they should be drawn and quartered on the spot.
The guy was a street thug, pure and simple. He will see the inside of a cell again, and soon.
> (2) using firearms during a drug trafficking crime;
This is actually a gun prohibitionist tactic. Interesting that you support it. Note there is no charge that he fired at anyone or used the firearm in any way.
If you are alleging that possession of a firearm is an act of violence, you are a gun-grabber, pure and simple.
Other than that, there’s not a shred of violence in any of the text you posted. The man sold something that the government didn’t want him to sell, and the government used violence against him. That’s the ONLY violence in this story.
Only because a firearm was in the home. Most reading that would assume the suspect physically picked up and used a weapon while selling and or buying drugs.
I know what the law says, but the fact remains the suspect never shot or killed anyone nor did he attempt to, did he?
“(2) using firearms during an drug trafficking crime; (3) using a telephone to facilitate drug trafficking; (4) using a residence located within 1000 feet of a secondary school for the distribution of cocaine and crack cocaine; and (5) money laundering.””
Substitute “firearms” for “drugs”, then read it again.
This is what will be used in a few years because you carried a pistol, when you were selling it to a person you spoke to on the phone. You went to his house, and there was a school 2 blocks away that had nothing to do with your transaction, and you didn’t declare the “income” on your taxes.
37 years. So called “conservatives’ happily building cages for others should notice that they fit neatly inside too. That isn’t a coincidence.