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IL SC to rule on 2A cases on 9/12/13
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Armed_Chicagoan
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The infuriating thing is this guy, who has a clean criminal record, spent more time in jail than criminal gang members get for actually threatening people with a loaded gun.
Like this admitted gang mamber from my own neighborhood:
He got upset with the way his soccer game was going one morning, and pulled a gun out of his backpack and threatened other players and spectators with it.
Chicago has a horrible track record of prosecuting gun crimes by career criminals, letting them plead to light sentences. These are the same guys who then go on to murder someone eventually, it's extremely rare for someone charged with murder to have a clean record. And very often they have a record of gun crimes prior to their murder, for which they receive light sentences and are released to commit more crimes. It's absolutely ridiculous.
Like this admitted gang mamber from my own neighborhood:
Jaime Gutierrez, 20, pleaded guilty to aggravated unlawful use of a weapon before Cook County Criminal Court Judge Sharon Sullivan who sentenced him to one year in prison, said Lisa Gordon, a spokeswoman for the Cook County State's Attorney.
Gutierrez, of the 3600 block of West Leland Avenue in the Albany Park neighborhood, was arrested July 29 and originally charged with unlawful use of a weapon and possession of a firearm with a defaced serial number, both felonies.
He got upset with the way his soccer game was going one morning, and pulled a gun out of his backpack and threatened other players and spectators with it.
Chicago has a horrible track record of prosecuting gun crimes by career criminals, letting them plead to light sentences. These are the same guys who then go on to murder someone eventually, it's extremely rare for someone charged with murder to have a clean record. And very often they have a record of gun crimes prior to their murder, for which they receive light sentences and are released to commit more crimes. It's absolutely ridiculous.
^^^Armed Chicagoan
This is exactly the problem. I am an 11 year resident of the Humboldt Park/Logan Square area and can say without question that the most sickening aspect of the justice system here is the inability, due to money or prison capacity, to prosecute gun crimes as they are already on the books in Chicago. While our legislators seem to save political face by piling on more municipal gun ordinances, there seems to be a disconnect in even attempting to prosecute career criminals with a laundry list of felonious gun charges. I'm sure paying the piper is all it takes (there is a serious amount of ineptitude in the wealthy class here) and it's obvious to anyone that facts and statistics answer to no one. Police Chief McCarthy was in the Tribune this week voicing his opinion after the Navy Yard shooting saying we need more "reasonable" gun control to the tune of federal and fingerprinted registration. We know this doesn't work. We've seen that every law has been ineffective here. We aren't so stupid (these days) to believe that had the citizens been armed at any of these shootings, the outcome could have somehow been worse.
The winds are blowing another way these days. This is good. Our leaders here are panicking. I assure you that changes are coming soon. Not just in policy, but in leadership as well.
This is exactly the problem. I am an 11 year resident of the Humboldt Park/Logan Square area and can say without question that the most sickening aspect of the justice system here is the inability, due to money or prison capacity, to prosecute gun crimes as they are already on the books in Chicago. While our legislators seem to save political face by piling on more municipal gun ordinances, there seems to be a disconnect in even attempting to prosecute career criminals with a laundry list of felonious gun charges. I'm sure paying the piper is all it takes (there is a serious amount of ineptitude in the wealthy class here) and it's obvious to anyone that facts and statistics answer to no one. Police Chief McCarthy was in the Tribune this week voicing his opinion after the Navy Yard shooting saying we need more "reasonable" gun control to the tune of federal and fingerprinted registration. We know this doesn't work. We've seen that every law has been ineffective here. We aren't so stupid (these days) to believe that had the citizens been armed at any of these shootings, the outcome could have somehow been worse.
The winds are blowing another way these days. This is good. Our leaders here are panicking. I assure you that changes are coming soon. Not just in policy, but in leadership as well.