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Guns and Crime
Josey1
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Guns and Crime
By Lamar Alexander
For too long, gun control has meant taking away Second Amendment rights from law-abiding citizens and leaving criminals out there to terrorize the streets. That's not right, and it's not safe.
Criminals - not guns - cause crimes.
That's why, as Governor, I put in place the Class X crimes bill. You've probably seen the signs in grocery stores: Armed robbery means a mandatory sentence - with no parole.
As your U.S. Senator, I would push for Project Exile. Here's how it works: commit a gun-related crime, and you'll be prosecuted under the toughest federal law. No exceptions. For a felon caught with a firearm, it's five years. Commit a crime with a gun, it's 15. No bail; no parole.
In Richmond, Virginia, where Project Exile started, violent crime is down 30 per cent; the murder rate is down 50 per cent.
Good citizens don't abuse guns; criminals do.
http://www.alexanderforsenate.com/News.asp?FormMode=BigIdea&ID=73
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
By Lamar Alexander
For too long, gun control has meant taking away Second Amendment rights from law-abiding citizens and leaving criminals out there to terrorize the streets. That's not right, and it's not safe.
Criminals - not guns - cause crimes.
That's why, as Governor, I put in place the Class X crimes bill. You've probably seen the signs in grocery stores: Armed robbery means a mandatory sentence - with no parole.
As your U.S. Senator, I would push for Project Exile. Here's how it works: commit a gun-related crime, and you'll be prosecuted under the toughest federal law. No exceptions. For a felon caught with a firearm, it's five years. Commit a crime with a gun, it's 15. No bail; no parole.
In Richmond, Virginia, where Project Exile started, violent crime is down 30 per cent; the murder rate is down 50 per cent.
Good citizens don't abuse guns; criminals do.
http://www.alexanderforsenate.com/News.asp?FormMode=BigIdea&ID=73
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878