VMI77 wrote:baldeagle wrote:This is what's wrong with our justice system.
Chance was busted and hit with gun and drug raps and faced more than 25 years’ prison.
But Brooklyn prosecutors dropped the gun rap when Chance was indicted. A source said the charge was weakened by the fact that Chance — who allegedly admitted the pistol was his — had not been the target of the search for the gun.
Any time you kid yourself or you hear someone else kidding themselves that the justice system is tough on gun crime, point them to stories like this. They are not. They simply want to disarm law abiding citizens. They have no interest in enforcing gun laws against known criminals. New York has some of the toughest gun laws in the nation. Look at how zealously they enforce them against criminals.
Bad example....they're very tough on gun "crime," but not on criminals...just the law abiding. If they had found the gun in the possession of some young woman who had been raped and got a gun for protection, she'd be spending at least 5 years in prison.
It seems most of the stories I hear about are people who are not troublemakers getting slammed for trying to protect themselves. Yes, they are breaking the laws as written. However, the disparity of enforcement is what troubles me.