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The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today said revelations that one of two suspects being held in connection with the deadly mass shooting in Sacramento was released from prison less than two months ago shows the problem in California isn’t guns, it’s prison system rules that allowed the man to be on the streets.
“Smiley Allen Martin has a criminal history dating back at least nine years,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, “and he was doing a ten-year stretch for domestic violence and assault, yet thanks to the current credits system by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, here he was in Sacramento at 2 a.m. in the middle of mayhem. He’s now facing new charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm, and possession of a machine gun.
The Sacramento Bee is reporting that Martin has been in trouble with the law since 2013, when he was prosecuted for possession of a semiautomatic rifle and outlawed magazines, and then sentenced to “probation and county jail.” Less than a year later, he was arrested on robbery charges and sentenced to two years in prison. In 2016, after being paroled, he was back in trouble again, and the following year, he was arrested for the domestic violence and assault, and sent back to prison in January 2018 with the 10-year sentence. Yet he was released in February of this year, despite an objection last year by the Sacramento County District Attorney’s office.
Guns laws haven't changed. Regulations allowing more criminals on the streets have changed.
The last statement of the article can be applied to just about anything.
This is why the American people don’t support more gun control, and instead are buying guns for personal protection. They are realizing that when you trade your freedom for some sense of security, you ultimately wind up with neither.
When you trade your freedom for health care, you wind up with neither.
When you trade your freedom for financial security...
Why do we have this problem with such high prison populations? Is it the war on drugs? Are there that many people out there committing violent crimes or are a lot of them victimless crimes? I'm for enforcing (most) laws but something is definitely off about the United States.
So what do we do differently? Decriminalize all simple drug possession and make it so that drug use in an of itself won't get you arrested, but only if you commit other crimes like robbery or violence? The most annoying thing about police to me is always how they try to sniff out drugs when pulling people over. On the other hand we don't want cartels of drug sellers running rampant here either. We do have Mexico to the south.
Do we simply have more criminals when you factor in inner city elements? There's clearly a problem but for me it's not well defined.... I haven't done sufficient research. In theory I support obeying laws but I think there's some laws that are counterproductive, like drug possession.
Obviously you should not be releasing someone convicted of a violent crime especially related to use of a firearm.
Martin has been in trouble with the law since 2013, when he was prosecuted for possession of a semiautomatic rifle and outlawed magazines, and then sentenced to “probation and county jail.” Less than a year later, he was arrested on robbery charges and sentenced to two years in prison. In 2016, after being paroled, he was back in trouble again, and the following year, he was arrested for the domestic violence and assault, and sent back to prison in January 2018 with the 10-year sentence. Yet he was released in February of this year
Where have I heard most of that before.....??
Has anybody ever seen this guy and George Floyd in the same room at the same time?
Why do we have this problem with such high prison populations? Is it the war on drugs? Are there that many people out there committing violent crimes or are a lot of them victimless crimes? I'm for enforcing (most) laws but something is definitely off about the United States.
So what do we do differently? Decriminalize all simple drug possession and make it so that drug use in an of itself won't get you arrested, but only if you commit other crimes like robbery or violence? The most annoying thing about police to me is always how they try to sniff out drugs when pulling people over. On the other hand we don't want cartels of drug sellers running rampant here either. We do have Mexico to the south.
Do we simply have more criminals when you factor in inner city elements? There's clearly a problem but for me it's not well defined.... I haven't done sufficient research. In theory I support obeying laws but I think there's some laws that are counterproductive, like drug possession.
Obviously you should not be releasing someone convicted of a violent crime especially related to use of a firearm.
You know... if you put this under the filter of the depopulation agenda, allowing the criminals to continue their mayhem would seem to fit.
So stupid you know it isn't the Babylon Bee, it is the modern left.
Democrats: In the name of equity we let violent criminals back out on to the streets. In unrelated news, guns have at the same time caused more violence in the under-served communities. Darn Republicans. Now we need more equity programs!
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