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To: neverdem
and to this day, I have yet to hear mandatory sentencing for crimes using a firearm. I hear it for drugs but NOT for illegal use of firearms.

Why don't these "politicians" lobby for a harsh sentencing

- rob a store with a gun 10 yrs.
- shoot a person with a gun while committing a crime 20 yrs.
- kill a person with a gun while committing a crime, life
32 posted on 03/30/2006 6:06:53 AM PST by Coleus (What were Ted Kennedy & his nephew doing on Good Friday, 1991? Getting drunk and raping women)
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To: Coleus
Bloomberg is an idiot-agreed. But mandatory sentencing is not a good idea for anything. What we need is tough laws and the ability to remove judges who fail to enforce them. But mandatory sentencing has a whole host of problems. take the three strikes law. You get caught drinking beer,or smoking pot, in a National Park(felony) as a third offense and you get a mandatory jail term-bad idea
45 posted on 03/30/2006 8:03:23 AM PST by bt-99 ("it's not ours to give")
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To: Coleus
and to this day, I have yet to hear mandatory sentencing for crimes using a firearm. I hear it for drugs but NOT for illegal use of firearms.

You didn't hear about this?

MAYOR MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG ANNOUNCES LATEST EXPANSION OF OPERATION SPOTLIGHT WITH OPENING OF BROOKLYN GUN COURT

47 posted on 03/30/2006 9:01:58 AM PST by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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