2aguy
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Yep...we don't need universal background checks, we don't need to license gun owners, we don't need to register guns and we don't need magazine limits...
we need prosecutors and judges to fucking lock up violent gun criminals the first time they are caught.....
This Week In Gun News: Rifle Homicides Drop, Man Arrested 39 Times Commits More Gun Crimes
Just How Many Gun Laws Does a Killer Break?
The Chicago Sun-Times recently released an editorial calling for more gun control. Not surprising there. But their first case calls for a closer look.
Paul Pagan is 32, and the definition of a career criminal. He’s been convicted of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, possession of a stolen car, marijuana possession, two counts of pointing a firearm at someone, and reckless conduct. At the time Pagan allegedly committed a murder, there was a warrant for his arrest.
The Chicago Sun-Times notes Pagan “had been arrested 39 times.”
Mr. Pagan is barred from possessing firearms under federal law for being a fugitive, for his felony convictions, and as a drug user.
By picking up a gun, Pagan hits an 18 USC 922(g) trifecta (the first three items), and can get up to 30 years in the Federal slammer. But wait, there is more. The two counts of pointing a firearm at someone fall under a mandatory sentence enhancement under 18 USC 924(c)(1)(A). The “brandishing” enhancement is a mandatory seven years in the slammer. And now, Pagan also hits the “armed career criminal” and under 18 USC 924(e)(1) and gets a minimum 15-year sentence with no chance of parole or probation.
Is it any wonder why crime is up?
There are tools that could put thugs like Pagan away for a long time, yet they don’t get used.
Then the same folks who refuse to put away the bad guys then blame the NRA and law-abiding gun owners for bad things happening. I suppose that gun-grabbers figure we fit into some “basket of deplorables.”
we need prosecutors and judges to fucking lock up violent gun criminals the first time they are caught.....
This Week In Gun News: Rifle Homicides Drop, Man Arrested 39 Times Commits More Gun Crimes
Just How Many Gun Laws Does a Killer Break?
The Chicago Sun-Times recently released an editorial calling for more gun control. Not surprising there. But their first case calls for a closer look.
Paul Pagan is 32, and the definition of a career criminal. He’s been convicted of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, possession of a stolen car, marijuana possession, two counts of pointing a firearm at someone, and reckless conduct. At the time Pagan allegedly committed a murder, there was a warrant for his arrest.
The Chicago Sun-Times notes Pagan “had been arrested 39 times.”
Mr. Pagan is barred from possessing firearms under federal law for being a fugitive, for his felony convictions, and as a drug user.
By picking up a gun, Pagan hits an 18 USC 922(g) trifecta (the first three items), and can get up to 30 years in the Federal slammer. But wait, there is more. The two counts of pointing a firearm at someone fall under a mandatory sentence enhancement under 18 USC 924(c)(1)(A). The “brandishing” enhancement is a mandatory seven years in the slammer. And now, Pagan also hits the “armed career criminal” and under 18 USC 924(e)(1) and gets a minimum 15-year sentence with no chance of parole or probation.
Is it any wonder why crime is up?
There are tools that could put thugs like Pagan away for a long time, yet they don’t get used.
Then the same folks who refuse to put away the bad guys then blame the NRA and law-abiding gun owners for bad things happening. I suppose that gun-grabbers figure we fit into some “basket of deplorables.”
