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Mandatory Sentence for "Illegal" Guns

Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2017 1:53 pm
by chasfm11
http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2017/07/2 ... l-hearing/

In another State, I might applaud a bill which clamps down on the illegal carrying of guns. But in Maryland, there is pretty much no such thing as the legal carrying of a gun unless your are an LEO or a political insider, due to the State's "may issue" approach to concealed handguns. I don't have the same enthusiastic support for this bill.

So I guess the thought process is that the good citizens of Baltimore will stop harming one another when there are no guns around. Good luck with that.

Re: Mandatory Sentence for "Illegal" Guns

Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2017 2:15 pm
by WildBill
In principle I am against a mandatory sentence for any crime. :rules:

Re: Mandatory Sentence for "Illegal" Guns

Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2017 2:23 pm
by C-dub
If I ever did anything like that it would be purely by accident, but I think I should get what Eric Holder got for trafficking illegal weapons it it did happen.

Re: Mandatory Sentence for "Illegal" Guns

Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2017 3:22 pm
by Jusme
WildBill wrote:In principle I am against a mandatory sentence for any crime. :rules:

I just wish that they would require people to do the time they are given. Too many are back out on the streets before the jury members get to change clothes.