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Probation for gang shooting
Posted by David Hardy · 29 August 2006 03:09 PM
A 16 yr old shoots at a car because he thinks it has gang members in it (I'd assume he was a gang member himself)... and gets probation.
Not that I'm on a soapbox about sentencing -- the primary effect of "get tough on crime" is to motivate each session of a legislature to up the penalties, to where sentences often exceed anything that is reasonable, and things that should be misdemeanors get classed as felonies. But probation for an apparently gang-related attempted homicide is out of line.
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And some jackass will try to use it for more gun control laws. As long as we have judges like that, what good are laws?
How do the laws concerning using a firearm during a crime apply here?