Don't expect to see Democrats or the Media (but I repeat myself) highlight this aspect of the incident. MSU shooter Anthony McRae pleaded guilty to gun charge in 2019.
McRae has a recent history with firearms. He was arrested in Lansing and charged in June 2019 with carrying a concealed pistol without a concealed carry permit, according to Ingham County court records obtained Tuesday by The Detroit News. [SNIP]
In October 2019, Ingham County prosecutors added a second charge against McRae: possession of a loaded firearm in a vehicle, a misdemeanor.
That same month, October 2019, McRae agreed to plead guilty to the lesser misdemeanor charge, and prosecutors dismissed the felony charge.
Hat tip to The Other McCain: MSU Gunman Got Charge Reduced to Misdemeanor on 2019 Gun Arrest. He sums up the situation perfectly.
This is always how it is with liberals and gun control. They’re unwilling to enforce existing laws, because they’re against putting criminals in prison, but every time there’s a mass shooting, they demand new gun-control laws, in order to punish law-abiding citizens who had nothing to do with the atrocity. So here you have a mass murderer who could have been sent to prison for five years, but was instead given a year of probation, and Gretchen Whitmer wants to seize the occasion of this tragedy to lecture us about the need to “do something,” as if the obvious solution — putting criminals in prison — were not even an option.
Logic? Facts? Democrats care not for these things.
My problem with criticisms like this is that carrying a gun should not be a crime. It is our right to do so. The supreme law of the land says we do not need government's permission.
ReplyDeleteThat is NOT the point of the story.
DeleteThe point of the story is that the Democrats won't enforce their own gun control laws, whether they are stupid or not, whether they are constitutional or not. They will cry to do something, but they won't do the one thing that would make a real difference - throw bad guys in jail and leave them there for a long time.
We KNOW that works, because that is what we did in the 1990s. Even NYC started doing that in the late 1990s.
But keeping bad guys in jail is unfair, so they want to make life difficult for you and me
Well the Democrat controlled Michigan Legislature is already preparing new "gun control" legislation built off of this incident. Any bets on whether what they come up with would have had any bearing on this shooting?
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