This is why new gun control laws won't solve much

[Racer X]

https://news.yahoo.com/ran-gun-show-conv...41316.html

"The longtime owner of a gun show in Eastern North Carolina spent three months in prison in 2005 after getting busted for selling and buying guns without a license." Dealing firearms without a FFL is a federal felony. And he sold plural. THEN.....

"Sherwood Watson Caraway was sentenced Tuesday to one year and one day in prison after he pleaded guilty to owning firearms as a convicted felon, prosecutors in the Eastern District of North Carolina said. Caraway was also ordered to surrender all of his guns and ammunition."

Each felon in posesion of a firearm is another felony in and of itself. " “numerous rifles, shotguns, and handguns," That has to be a minimum of 6, 33 more were found at his daughter's place. Might or might not be able to make those stick. Any with his fingerprints on them would be a slam dunk.

What the hell is wrong with the lazy DAs, and Judges who let repeat federal criminals get a slap on the wrist?

[SteveG]

The real problem is that there are 390,000,000 guns in the U.S.. Each one is capable of killing someone.

I believe it is an unstoppable tidal wave of death and injury.

[Spock]

If one of our resident firearm advocates believes gun control laws won't solve much then banning all firearms is the only logical answer.

[davester]

Spock wrote:
If one of our resident firearm advocates believes gun control laws won't solve much then banning all firearms is the only logical answer.

This is the only logical conclusion stemming from Racer X's post. Who knew that he would finally come up with something reasonable.

[Racer X]

No, the issues are the DAs, and judges not charging criminals to the fullest extent of the law, and the judges handing out slaps on the wrists.

Why aren't they going away for multiple decades instead of multiple months?

And banning firearms sure isn't going to cause the DAs to grow spines, and judges to be harsher.

It was already illegal for this guy to have these firearms. Banning them outright won't make them illegaler.

[Racer X]

Spock wrote:
If one of our resident firearm advocates believes gun control laws won't solve much then banning all firearms is the only logical answer.

Sounds like a reading comprehension issue on your part. You ignored the key word NEW

The current ones aren't being used to their fullest extent already. A whole new crop to under utilize won't be useful.

[davester]

Racer X wrote:
[quote=Spock]
If one of our resident firearm advocates believes gun control laws won't solve much then banning all firearms is the only logical answer.

Sounds like a reading comprehension issue on your part. You ignored the key word NEW

The current ones aren't being used to their fullest extent already. A whole new crop to under utilize won't be useful.
Thats irrelevant since you just demonstrated that the old ones don't work either. If you think that this is purely an issue with DAs and judges, then this problem extends throughout all of the jurisdictions in all 50 states and the Federal government because the problem is everywhere in the US. Are you seriously proposing that if all of those jurisdictions simply changed out all of their judges and DAs then the problem would go away? That is simply delusional.

[Racer X]

No, the question is finding out WHY when someone commits dozens of felonies, they only get months instead of decades. This has been going on for years and years.

If it is a sentencing guidelines issue, they really need to be overhauled. If its a political issue, then working in the DAs office, or being a federal prosecutor needs to be revamped so there can't be any influence.

[RgrF]

It's crime prevention vs. crime clean-up, you simply have less clean-up to do if you engage in prevention. Prevention might entail encroaching on gun rights so that's a non-starter in the gun world.

[Racer X]

The laws on the books in my state are pretty good. Now they just need to enforce them fully, with no free passes.

I skimmed the sentencing guidelines for Washington, and as long as you don't get caught committing felonies more often than every decade, past crimes aren't taken into account. So every 121 months, you are golden. You aren't a repeat offender. :ftw: