Posted on 05/07/2018 7:50:38 AM PDT by Theoria
Bobby Amos stood outside of an Episcopal church in Alabama last spring, begging police to kill him. He had been suicidal earlier and held a gun to his head, his wife said, and she had hidden the weapon at the church, where he had followed her to retrieve it.
There was little to indicate that Mr. Amos, 39, was a danger to anyone but himself that day. He was arrested unarmed outside the church, in need of treatment and counseling, according to his lawyer, Fred Tiemann. Police recovered the pistol from the building.
Federal prosecutors, citing Mr. Amos’s conviction of felony robbery as an adult at age 15, instead charged him with illegally possessing a firearm. He pleaded guilty in November and is serving a three-year sentence in federal prison.
Urged by Attorney General Jeff Sessions to punish offenders as harshly and as quickly as possible, federal prosecutors have increasingly pursued low-level gun possession cases, according to law enforcement officials and an examination of court records and federal crime statistics. Mr. Amos’s conviction was part of the Justice Department’s broad crackdown on gun violence during the first 15 months of the Trump administration.
Mr. Sessions is putting into action his own long-held views on criminal justice, forged as a United States attorney in Alabama during the drug war. They reflect a philosophy popular among conservatives and long backed by the gun lobby: that the effective enforcement of existing laws can reduce crime without resorting to the passage of additional legislation.
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You can’t reduce violence by going after criminals. You have to target the law abiding citizens because liberalism.
That Jeff is sure a tough cookie.
> That Jeff is sure a tough cookie.
You bet!
I hear he’s going after potheads and doubling down on property confiscation for “drug crimes”.
Go gete ‘em Jeff.
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We’ll start at the bottom and roll up the obvious deep state corruption at the top. In about 50 years. Jeff you need to do your real job but that requires not acting like a blob of jellyfish washed up on the beach.
The opposition to prosecuting criminals for gun crimes wants registration and confiscation of firearms from law abiding citizens. The author of this article made that perfectly clear.
Sleepy Sessions! Someone wake up Sessions!
Bwahaha! Look at Sessions as Granny from Beverly Hillbillies!
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