The District Attorney for Los Angeles, George Gascon, came out in a statement saying that the real victims are criminals.
As reported in the Washington Examiner:
Gun control is for civilians, not criminals. The criminal justice system should view criminals as victims. These are the guiding lights of Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon.
On the same day that an 81-year-old woman was shot to death in a home invasion robbery, Gascon sent out a fundraising email decrying the use of sentencing enhancements. Enhancements add prison time for violent crimes for a number of reasons, from gang affiliation to the use of guns.
But Gascon thinks we shouldn’t be too hard on criminals. Gascon did not add a sentence enhancement to the charges against the woman’s killer, a man who, of course, had an extensive criminal history and was recently released on parole in September. The enhancement would add 25 years to his sentence.
This new way of thinking about crime and criminals is part of a larger movement this country has seen in recent years. Liberal prosecutors are cutting sentences, moving in on bail reform, and letting so go all together. While this has been going on, we have also seen a new push to punish law abiding gun owners with new, stricter versions of gun control.
This version of criminal justice reform has been a disaster for the state of California. Shoplifters are no longer punished for stealing and as a result large gangs work together to steal just enough to not get the police involved. Sadly drug addict’s have been able to freely use hard drugs like heroin in the streets of San Francisco because the city decriminalized the use of these drugs.
California has moved on new forms of gun control recently and like all gun control, these measures target the law abiding citizens and not criminals who use guns for nefarious purposes.
