2aguy
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Here we have a violent criminal who used a gun to commit a car jacking.....he got 30 months in jail.....got out, and then got another illegal gun and had to be shot and killed by police......
The problem in this country is that democrats refuse to lock up violent gun criminals for 30 years....had this violent gun criminal gotten 30 years, instead of 30 months for his initial gun crime, he wouldn't have been out of prison with an illegal gun...who knows what he did before the police shot and killed him...
The democrats do not care about gun crime. All the democrats care about are the guns law abiding gun owners own and carry, while they let violent criminals like this monster out of jail over and over again...
Our under-incarceration problem, D.C. edition
A few days ago, the Washington D.C. police fatally shot 22-year-old Marqueese Alston. According to the police department, Alston fired on officers who chased him into an alley. The department has produced a photo of the gun they say Alston used.
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Alston had been released from prison in March after serving 30 months for robbing a man of his car at gunpoint. At the time he was killed, Alston was on supervised release. He was barred from possessing a gun and from leaving the District, and was wearing a GPS bracelet so the Court Services & Offender Supervision Agency could keep track of his movements.
The shooting of Alston raises at least two noteworthy points. First, it confirms the futility of early, supervised release from prison. GPS bracelet or not, Alston was free to hang out in the crime infested area where he encountered, and fled from, the police. Prohibition on possessing a gun or not, he was, from all that appears, in possession of one.
Second, Alston’s sentence was ridiculously low. Carjacking at gun point netted him only 30 months of jail time. A properly functioning criminal justice system would have locked him for at least three times that long. If our system had, Alston would still be alive.
How did Alston get such a light sentence? He pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of robbery and one count of illegal possession of a handgun. This is typical, and it undercuts complaints from the leniency crowd that, as a general matter, criminal sentences are too long. If anything, they are usually too short.
Alston then received a low end sentence for the offenses he pleaded guilty to, thanks to something called the Youth Rehabilitation Act. This despite the fact that the carjacking occurred in context Alston selling drugs.
The problem in this country is that democrats refuse to lock up violent gun criminals for 30 years....had this violent gun criminal gotten 30 years, instead of 30 months for his initial gun crime, he wouldn't have been out of prison with an illegal gun...who knows what he did before the police shot and killed him...
The democrats do not care about gun crime. All the democrats care about are the guns law abiding gun owners own and carry, while they let violent criminals like this monster out of jail over and over again...
Our under-incarceration problem, D.C. edition
A few days ago, the Washington D.C. police fatally shot 22-year-old Marqueese Alston. According to the police department, Alston fired on officers who chased him into an alley. The department has produced a photo of the gun they say Alston used.
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Alston had been released from prison in March after serving 30 months for robbing a man of his car at gunpoint. At the time he was killed, Alston was on supervised release. He was barred from possessing a gun and from leaving the District, and was wearing a GPS bracelet so the Court Services & Offender Supervision Agency could keep track of his movements.
The shooting of Alston raises at least two noteworthy points. First, it confirms the futility of early, supervised release from prison. GPS bracelet or not, Alston was free to hang out in the crime infested area where he encountered, and fled from, the police. Prohibition on possessing a gun or not, he was, from all that appears, in possession of one.
Second, Alston’s sentence was ridiculously low. Carjacking at gun point netted him only 30 months of jail time. A properly functioning criminal justice system would have locked him for at least three times that long. If our system had, Alston would still be alive.
How did Alston get such a light sentence? He pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of robbery and one count of illegal possession of a handgun. This is typical, and it undercuts complaints from the leniency crowd that, as a general matter, criminal sentences are too long. If anything, they are usually too short.
Alston then received a low end sentence for the offenses he pleaded guilty to, thanks to something called the Youth Rehabilitation Act. This despite the fact that the carjacking occurred in context Alston selling drugs.
