ugh fine, give them 10 years thenOriginally Posted by Tellafriend
Blake aren’t you an attorney? You must not practice federal criminal law. The dockets are replete w fools charged w felon in possession of weapons which carry 5 years. Criminals have already decided the consequences are worth the risk. Anyway, stick w baccarat.
the only people that would risk a 5-year mandatory minimum sentence are legit gangs who tend to shoot up each other. there would be no impulse killings, school shootings, etc. no gun crimes would be committed by "ordinary people." gang members would be incarcerated so fast that it would be ridiculous
i think you're way off on this like i said above. also i just don't get this reasoning. guns would be off the streets within a generation or two. if you thought this gun ban would eventually work -- and immediately reduce gun crimes by 99% the second the law is enacted -- why not do this now? it seems crazy when you really think about it.For a very, very, very long while.
Between the already illegal guns out there, plus all the guns that wouldn't be turned in upon a mandatory buyback program (there would be a high number of people claiming to have "lost" theirs, or whatever), it would take an incredibly long time to eventually find these guns and confiscate them.
And when I say a long time, I mean that if you knocked up some woman today, your great great grandkids wouldn't be in a gun free society.
yeah i don't do criminal law though i was once appointed to represent some drug dealer. i managed to talk the prosecutor into a lighter sentence though, which was neat
i used to meet with the guy in the federal detention center in philly at the same time that joey merlino (alleged philly mob boss) was there. i don't know if i believe this, but he said that merlino had his whole section of the jail to himself like in goodfellas. "they eat steak and shrimp every night."
joey got acquitted this week in another case in New York
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